How did hostilities increase between U.S. and Soviet Union during 1950s? Because U.S. was in competition with Soviet Union all over the world. But hostilities increased between U.S. and Soviet Union during 1950s when Egypt seized control of Suez Canal in 1956 so the U.S. said it would defend the Middle East against communist attacks.
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Sakoku (??, "closed country") was the isolationist foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate (aka Bakufu) under which, for a period of over 220 years, relations and trade between Japan and other countries were severely limited, nearly all foreign nationals were barred from entering Japan and common Japanese. From 1633 until 1853, the military governments of Japan enforced a policy of sakoku or 'closed country' which prevented foreigners from entering Japan on penalty of death, and prohibited Japanese citizens from leaving.
It allowed women to vote when they couldn't before.