Spanish minister Do Luis de Onis and U.S. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams sign the Florida Purchase Treaty, in which Spain agrees to cede the remainder of its old province of Florida to the United States. ... Florida was organized as a U.S. territory in 1822 and was admitted into the Union as a slave state in 1845.
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The goal of containment (Truman Doctrine) was to box in the Soviet Union to prevent them from effectively spread communism.
<u>Most women entered in the labor force for the first time during WWII.</u> In the US, for instance, many job positions were empty when the war started as, after the draft, many men were forced to join the armed forces and went to the battlefronts either the Europe, to the Pacific theatre of to the North African one.
As production levels had to be maintained for the well-functioning of the country, women occupied such empty positions and kept production processes working. This was the first contact with the labor force for many of them, and it <u>meant a turning point as, along the second half of the 20th century, female employment figures grew spetacularly.</u>
It was in ruins and needed reconstruction.
It was because they were inspired by the renewed interest in Greek and Roman culture.
