The economic collapse of the soith happened rapidly from tge result of the war. Many states went into debt to the US government as a result. Now a few years after the war the south started rebuilding and led to a industral revolution. Many of the southerners who could not find work, went and worked for the rail roads as well.
The United States took military action against the Taliban due to the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001 by al Qaeda. Osama bin Laden was determined to have had connections to the movement (however tenuous or extremist they may have been) and the movement itself oftentimes encouraged hostilities against Western states due to their century-long period of interference in Middle Eastern affairs.
<span>D. To support anti-communist rebel groups
The United States wanted to keep the communism from spreading to the other areas of the world. It supported the Contra rebels in Nicaragua because of its goal to fight against a regime that was influenced by the communists such as the Sandinistas.<span>
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