Persecution of Christians by the Romans facilitated the rapid growth and spread of Christianity.
In the first three centuries, there was a lot of persecution of the Christian Church by Roman authorities. This ended up having a significant historical effect in that many Christians fled far and wide in the old world and wherever they went they preached the gospel of Christ.
About 12 emperors of Rome in the period 30 t0 311AD went out of their way to persecute Christians, and it was in this periods that Christianity spread widest.
They crossed the border to help fight.
The Civil War influenced the role of government in the United States because it highlighted how the national government was the sovereign power. Following efforts by states to succeed and establish their own system of government the national government of the U.S. asserted is dominance and defeated the southern belligerents, thereby reasserting its dominance over politics and government in the United States following the war.
<span>United States of America refused to enter 1920 when Warren G. Harding came to the presidency, although, as we mentioned, Wilson was his promoter. Germany was denied entry, but joined in 1926, to leave again after Hitler's accession to power in 1933. The Soviet Union was also denied entry, acceded in 1934 and was Again expelled in 1939 Japan left in 1933 and Italy in 1936. In addition, the league never had the economic or military means to impose its resolutions. The thirties marked their ultimate failure. The aggressions of the fascist and militarist powers showed their inefficiency. The beginning of the Second World War meant the end of the first world organization of nations. Among the same peace treaties with which World War I ends, includes the creation of the League of Nations or League of Nations, which had US President Thomas W. Wilson as its great promoter</span>
The Soviet Union launched Sputnik in October 1957.