African nations' raw materials and workforce served as fuel to imperialist countries. It helped them attain richness and development they have today. This situation did not help African nations but only made their country stagnant. The Africans spent their hundreds of years to servitude to make imperialists prosper.
Answer:
The scandal of the second Reagan administration involving sales of arms to Iran in partial exchange for release of hostages in Lebanon and use of the arms money to aid the Contras in Nicaragua, which had been expressly forbidden by Congress was the Iran-Contra Affair.
Explanation:
The Iran-Contra scandal (also known as "Irangate") was based on the secret arms trade of President Ronald Reagan administration to Iran during the bloody war with his neighbor Saddam Hussein in Iraq between 1980 and 1988. Proceeds from the arms trade were channeled to the Contra guerrillas in Nicaragua. The stores were supposed to influence in two ways:
-Affects Iran, which had influence over Hezbollah, which held several US hostages in Lebanon.
-Support the anti-communist guerrilla war in Nicaragua.
The deals were made in contravention of congressional decisions banning the financing of Contra-guerrillas and the sale of weapons to Iran. In addition, both arms sales and support for guerrillas were at odds with UN sanctions.
<span>Charles A. Beard, an American historian of the early 20th-century, used those exact words in his most famous work, 1913's An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. In this book, he argued that the Constitution was crafted mainly because the founding fathers of the country were invested in protecting their own financial holdings.</span>
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