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Europeans and Americans enjoyed technological superiority and possessed a modern navy with powerful warships powered by steam engines. If they wished, they could have inflicted great damage on Japanese ports and armies. Due to isolation and limited contacts with the outside world, Japan had lagged behind the West technologically and scientifically by the first half of the 19th century. After the fall of the shogunate, the leaders of the Meiji Era began a modernization process, a relatively quick catch-up with the West.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was at the height of the Cold War, and led to the <em>containment</em> of communism. Soviet Union supported the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in the establishment and supply of nuclear missiles to keep the United States occupied with the missiles being so close to their nation. As a result, the U.S. threatened to fire their own nuclear missiles which would have been catastrophic. Peace agreements were signed and the Cuban missiles were either demolished or shipped back to the Soviet Union, causing Soviet Union to back down, and thus resulting in the containment of communism.
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12 Amendments of the U.S. Constitution
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The primary effect of the Supreme Court case McCulloch v. Maryland was that the economic supremacy of the federal government was upheld, since it was deemed illegal for Maryland to impede the flow of currency over state borders.
<span>Social Security payroll taxes are collected
under authority of the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA). The
payroll taxes are sometimes even called "FICA taxes." As part of the
1939 Amendments, the Title VIII taxing provisions were taken out of the
Social Security Act and placed in the Internal Revenue Code</span>
