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the highest class in certain societies, typically comprising people of noble birth holding hereditary titles and offices.
Answer:The main power was KMT and it was extremely corrupted. Weak central government, lack of modern industrial base, various levels of corruption. Chinese troops when trained and decently equipped performed well.
Many terrorist organizations are nationalists by another name.
Nationalist groups want freedom or independence from what they perceive as a outside power or force. Many terrorist organizations are formed to overthrow a government or gain access to nationalist state. ISIS for example wants an independent Islamic State which is free of Western influence. The Ku Klux Klan is a white nationalist group and also a domestic terrorist organization. Much of the terminology is perspective.
The Republican Party platform stated that slavery would not be allowed to spread any further into the territories. The Republicans also promised to support tariffs that protected Northern industry, a Homestead Act granting free farmland in the West to settlers, and the funding of a transcontinental railroad.
Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Churches