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The aftermath of World War II was the beginning of an era defined by the decline of the old great powers and the rise of two superpowers: the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States of America (USA), creating a bipolar world. Europe was divided into a US-led Western Bloc and a Soviet-led Eastern Bloc.
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desired reconciliation and peace between the North and South and a smooth transition back into the Union.
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According to the excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's Second Inauqural Address, he talked about having no malice but with charity in mind to fix the wounds of the country and care for those who had felt the effects of the war and for the widow who lost her husband.
This excerpt indicates that the president desired reconciliation and peace between the North and South and a smooth transition back into the Union.
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The Second Opium War ， also known as the Second Anglo-Chinese War, the Second China War, the Arrow War, or the Anglo-French expedition to China, was a war pitting the British Empire and the French Empire against the Qing dynasty of China that lasted from 1856 to 1860.
In 1860, British and French troops landed near Beijing and fought their way into the city. Negotiations quickly broke down and the British High Commissioner to China ordered the troops to loot and destroy the Imperial Summer Palace, a complex and garden where Qing Dynasty emperors had traditionally handled the country’s official matters.
The second Opium War forced the Qing government to sign peace treaties between China and Russia such Tianjin Treaty and Beijing Treaty. As a result, China lost more than 1.5 million square kilometers of territory in northeast and northwest China. After the war, the Qing government was able to concentrate on the Taiping Rebellion and maintaining its rule. The agreements of the Convention of Peking led to the ceding of Kowloon Peninsula as part of Hong Kong.
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