<span>The 17th century saw Sweden as an European "Great Power" and one of the major military and political combatants on the continent during the Thirty Years' War. By mid-century, the kingdom included part of Norway, all of Finland and stretched into Russia. Sweden's control of portions of modern Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Germany made the Baltic Sea essentially a Swedish lake.</span>
The <span>professed aim of the daughters of Liberty was to show patriotism by boycotting British goods that implemented taxes on the colonists, since many viewed such taxes as being unfair since the colonists didn't have representation in Parliament. </span>
Hitler rose to power as the chancellor of Germany in 1933 through a legal election and formed a coalition government of the nsdao-DNVP party .
People were concerned about what groups were influencing politicians through their contributions.
