This quote comes from the now famous Four Freedoms speech, delivered by Roosevelt as the State of the Union address on January 6, 1941. The international context was very negative. Hitler and his Axis allies were winning in Europe. Britain was greatly menaced and the Japanese were gearing up for all-out war in the Pacific and in Asia.
Roosevelt, aware that scientific progress had eliminated the physical advantage of the USA being separated from Europe and Asia by such vast expanses of water had been arming and funding the British for years and had also increased military spending and the Navy in order to keep Japan at bay.
He knew that once Hitler had conquered Europe and Japan had conquered the East, all the populations and resources of these vast reasons would be used to directly attack the USA, which would eventually find itself in numeric inferiority so in order to prevent such a dark future he chose to send weapons, supplies and money to the British.
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1787: Constitution creates the first federal system the newly drafted Constitution included a system that would share powers between the states and the national government.
Explanation:
One incredible accomplishment of the American founding was the making of a compelling protected structure of political organizations. Two significant parts of the U.S. Constitution federalism and the separation of power partially, the framers' endeavors to isolate administrative power.
Federalism reduced the government powers by limiting the ruling of the state leadership authority and state governments together with these lines controlling the impact of both.
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The reputations of many people were ruined by false accusations of disloyalty
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I'm pretty sure its B.
Explanation:
The Persians were defeated causing Xerxes to retreat back to Persia. After the first invasion, the Athenians built up a mighty fleet of ships called triremes. The Persian Empire was eventually conquered by the Greeks under the leadership of Alexander the Great.
