The Federalists opposed the War of 1812 because the policies of the opposing party that declared war, headed by Thomas Jefferson and later headed by James Madison, brought the Federalist stronghold of New England to the verge of destitution.
<span>C. 40 million+ people died in the European theater of World War II.
Death toll totals for World War II are debated somewhat, and have some ranges within which estimates occur. Using figures provided by the National World War II Museum, the death count in the European theater of the war (both military and civilian deaths) totaled between 41 and 45 million people. The Soviet Union bore the heaviest casualty count, with 24 million who died. The Holocaust, which Germany carried out against Jews and others, is another dreadful part of the death count in Europe.
And then there was the Asian-Pacific theater of war as well. About 20 million Chinese persons and 3 million Japanese persons lost their lives in World War II.
Worldwide in the horrific conflict between nations that was World War II, there were approximately 15 million battle deaths (plus another 25 million wounded), and 45 million civilian deaths.</span>
The movement where people from or with ancestors from 21 Central and South American countries that were once former colonies of Spain were grouped together speaks to dynamics underlying involuntary ethnicity. This process divides people into racial classification where they are explicitly or implicitly ranked on a social worth’s scale.
The United States claimed the Lusitania carried an innocent cargo, and therefore the torpedoing was a monstrous German atrocity. Actually, the Lusitania was heavily armed: it carried 1,248 cases of 3 inch shells, 4,927 boxes of cartridges (1,000 rounds in each box), and 2,000 more cases of small arms ammunition. The British and American governments lied about the cargo.