As many as 50 million people had been killed in World War II, and thus after it ended, the Allies faced difficult decisions about the future.
The United nations was formed as a peacekeeping and humanitarian group, and the U.S. Marshall Plan offered the aid in rebuilding. This however, is what led to the Cold War. The Soviet Union and the West were quick to develop into competing alliances.
Many Americans followed the Lincoln-Douglas debates as it discussed several important points of American Politics and would also shape the future of the course of American Politics and policies.
Explanation:
- Slavery was a big issue in the States and after the independence, Abraham Lincoln was the first President who waged a political war for the complete abolition of slavery.
- Douglas, on the other hand, gave the territories the freedom to choose if they wanted to keep on having slavery or not unlike Lincoln.
- There were a total of seven debates in between Lincoln and Douglas where afterwards Abraham Lincoln won the elections and subsequently abolished slavery for once and all.
- The win of Abraham Lincoln was also supported by the majority of the Americans and soon after America emerged as one of the biggest Republics and a politically powerful nation closely watched by the Americans.
<span>The prohibition was known as the act of forbidding the sale and even manufacturing of alcohol in the US. The people who did not support the Prohibition claim that it actually takes away people's rights to buy alcohol. Which is why most who supported it were liberals, freedom fighters, and also alcoholics.
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The answer is C) Boundaries that disregarded ethnic and religious differences
There were three main causes for the Cuban independence movement and they were
1) discontent with the Spanish rule (Cuba and Puerto Rico were the only colonies still under the Spanish rule and Cubans did not want to deal with the taxes and despotism of the colonial rule)
2) The US ship Maine went to Havana, however, the ship was sunk due to an unexplained explosion. The Spanish were blamed for this incident. The colonial rule tried to appease the US government, however, it was to no avail.
3) The third cause for the revolution was the poverty of the Cuban people which was just exacerbated by the taxes imposed by the Spanish
