All of the names on the map are Irish, so the map suggests that Irish immigrants may take over the United States by the 1900s.
You
may well be right about people's fears that immigrants, lots of them
from Ireland, would overrun the country. Look up when the potato famine
was, though. The map may be from the early 1900s, but, if so, not about
the potato famine in Ireland.
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I would argue that militarism contributes to imperialism, not the other way around. <em>But</em> I guess that imperialism could lead to the growth of armies in that it allows them to expand their forces through the natives from the area that they're imperializing.
A good example of this would be the British East India Company. British imperialism was especially prevalent in India during the 18th/19th century, and during that time they were able to create a presidency armies which were mostly made up of Indian sepoys.
The Gang of Four controlled the power organs of the Communist Party of China through the later stages of the Cultural Revolution, although it remains unclear which major decisions were made by Mao Zedong and carried out by the Gang, and which were the result of the Gang of Four's own planning.
The Gang of Four, together with disgraced general Lin Biao who died in 1971, were labeled the two major "counter-revolutionary forces" of the Cultural Revolution and officially blamed by the Chinese government for the worst excesses of the societal chaos that ensued during the ten years of turmoil. Their downfall on October 6, 1976, a mere month after Mao's death, brought about major celebrations on the streets of Beijing and marked the end of a turbulent political era in China.
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The colonists had justified reasons because all they wanted was to have a representative in the English parliament who could vote on future taxes and anything else. If they had representatives in the parliament, the war might have never happened or might have been delayed. The factor that prevented them was that the King believed he could do whatever he wanted because he was the King and the colonies supposedly belonged to him, just like everything else.
Out of these options, the greatest direct cause of the Great Depression was the stock market crash of 1929. This crash led to wide-spread panic, which led a lot of people to withdraw their investments.
