The main reason why the United States involved itself in a civil dispute on the Korean peninsula in the 1950s was "<span>to exercise the policy of containment," since they were attempting to stop the spread of communism. </span>
In 1914, Gandhi returned to India and lived a life of abstinence and spirituality on the periphery of Indian politics. He supported Britain in the First World War but in 1919 launched a new satyagraha in protest of Britain’s mandatory military draft of Indians. Hundreds of thousands answered his call to protest, and by 1920 he was leader of the Indian movement for independence. Always nonviolent, he asserted the unity of all people under one God and preached Christian and Muslim ethics along with his Hindu teachings. The British authorities jailed him several times, but his following was so great that he was always released.
They feared that more populous states would have a sort of monopoly on elections and that it was best for all states to have the exact same powers as other, smaller states.
