Lenin was a Marxist, as were his successors. He had a vision of making the Soviet Union a country where everyone will be equal, earning the same amount of money, everything will be available to everyone, the country to be self-sustainable. While this may seem as a nice idea, in practice in turned the total opposite. The Soviet Union became one huge concentration camp where around 30 million people lost their lives because they had another political opinion, belong to certain ethnic group, and were people that had it better and succeeded in life. The people were poor, often suffering from malnutrition because of the misjudged planning of the high officials. The economy was not in good condition and was developing very slowly. The country was ruled by a dictator that used violence in order to sort all the problems.
The Louisiana Purchase was actually when the USA bought present-day Louisiana from France; it added French influences into our country, as well as more land.
It was important because it supported the Hanseatic trade route in the Baltik and the canal needed to be built between major trading cities. This was one of the great examples of co operation across borders in the North Europe in the area of free trade.
<span>In the 1954 case of Brown v. Board of Education, written by Chief Just Earl Warren, the Supreme Court decided that having "separate but equal" schools for African American children and for white children was not in fact equal and violated the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment.</span>
