<span>The american electorate began seriously to question the competence of the bush administration as a result of
mismanagement </span>
of the government's response to Hurricane Katrina.
Hurricane Katrina hit
the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005 with sustained winds of 125 mph. It damaged
an estimated $100 B in properties and approximately 1000 people lost their
lives.
Hurricane Katrina badly blemished George W. Bush's reputation.
His administration failed to timely and efficiently deal with the calamity.
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The Spanish Civil War (1936-9) was a very important event during the tense1930s in Europe. Although it did not make World War II inevitable, it increased the likelihood of a general war a great deal. The war had a tremendous impact on Spain itself, leaving much of the state's economic and social infrastructure in ruins and leaving thousands dead. But the war also saw involvement from other European states as both sides of the conflict - the Right-wing Nationalists and the Left-wing Republicans (a.k.a. Loyalists) - requested and received foreign aid not only in terms of financial assets, but also in terms of war material and troops. Adolf Hitler's Germany was one of the foreign countries most involved in the conflict, contributing economic loans as well as several thousand troops to the Nationalist cause. Hitler's involvement in the Spanish war was consistent with a larger Nazi foreign policy aimed at diverting British and French attention from Central and Eastern Europe so that he would be unhindered in his plans for eastern expansion.
<span>However, the ramifications of the Spanish war for the rest of Europe were great in other ways. The Spanish Civil War was a major contributor to the hardening of the division between the democracies (Britain and France) and the dictatorships (Italy and Germany). Germany also gained the valuable raw materials from Spain that it needed for eastern expansion and the accompanying possibility of war. The Spanish Civil War also undermined British and French credibility to Hitler, emboldening him to make more dramatic eastern expansion moves. Furthermore, the war helped drive the USSR away from Britain and France and was one of the reasons why Stalin reluctantly concluded that an accommodation with Hitler was necessary. In all these ways then, the Spanish Civil War was a major step toward World War II. In order to understand more thoroughly how</span>
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The development of the military-industrial complex after World War II and its continued accumulation in reaction to questions regarding the military prowess of the Soviet Union became part of the influence of the Cold War. This has resulted in dramatic amounts of technical advancement, contributing to massive increases in GDP.
Competition with the Soviet Union has resulted in unparalleled levels of expenditure in education, especially in mathematics and science. The mixture of returned veterans attending university under the GI Bill and recent STEM education investments reacting to the "Sputnik moment" led to the creation of a very highly trained population in the United States.
Cold War hysteria led to McCarthyism, which was a major attack on civil liberties. In an imperialistic attempt to fight Soviet power internationally, it also contributed to interference in the affairs of several other nations. The increase in participation in foreign wars and environmentally damaging factories contributed to the creation of protest campaigns protesting foreign wars and seeking environmental regulation increased.
Benito Mussolini organized a military group and was granted the role of prime minister by the king
Blacks were concentrated in the lowest-paying, dirtiest, and most hazardous jobs, and were routinely harassed and assaulted. It was not enough to have separate bathrooms for blacks and whites; the "black" bathrooms were often located far from specific workplaces, forcing employees to spend a good deal of their break getting there and coming back. It was not enough to have separate water fountains for blacks and whites; the "black" fountains were never cleaned, and the water was always warm.
