With The Soviet Unions collapse, The US's main enemy that it had been opposed to for years was no longer occupying its time. Very quickly, the US turned its focus towards the many terrorist factions in the middle east, some of which it had facilitated. This lead to things like 9/11 and the Iraq war. Additionally, all the territory that had been previously been controlled by the Soviet Union near the middle East (Kazakhstan) were released and left to their own devices.
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The United States responded by suspending repayment of French loans from the American Revolutionary War. When diplomatic negotiations, culminating in the XYZ Affair, failed to resolve the issue, French privateers began attacking merchant ships in American waters.
Part of: French Revolutionary Wars
Combatants: United States, France
Start date: 7 July 1798
Answer: Ratify/Ratification: 'Ratification' is an act by which a State signifies an agreement to be legally bound by the terms of a particular treaty. To ratify a treaty, the State first signs it and then fulfils its own national legislative requirements.
