After the April 9, 1942, U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II (1939-45), the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps.
Political conservatives were worried about people being upset due to the large number of US soldiers(117,000) who died fighting in WWI.
The physical environment of medieval cities was not pleasant. The cities were often dirty and smelled from animal and human waste. Air pollution was also a fact of life.
Answer:
- The South would destroy the nation, but the North had to fight for the nation to survive.
Explanation:
The 16th U.S. president Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address in 1865 primarily aims to recapitulate the cause of war and the destruction brought by it was the consequence of 'divine retribution' towards pursuing a sin like slavery.
In the given quotation, he expresses the idea of 'South bringing destruction to the nation' as they not only possessed slavery but rather showed a retribution towards it which was the key cause of Civil War and now, the North had been fighting for the survival of the nation from this war.' Thus, he concludes by hoping to 'strive to..bind up these wounds.'
