A major reason why the colonists opposed the taxes imposed after the French and Indian War was because "<span>They claimed that since the colonies had no representation in Parliament, Parliament had no right to tax them" since they viewed this as being tyrannical. </span>
The Iran–Contra Scandal (Persian: ماجرای ایران-کنترا, Spanish: caso Irán-Contra), also referred to as Irangate,[1] Contragate[2] or the Iran–Contra affair, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. Senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo.[3] The administration hoped to use the proceeds of the arms sale to fund the Contras in Nicaragua. Under the Boland Amendment, further funding of the Contras by the government had been prohibited by Congress.
The official justification for the arms shipments was that they were part of an operation to free seven American hostages being held in Lebanon by Hezbollah, a paramilitary group with Iranian ties connected to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The plan was for Israel to ship weapons to Iran, for the United States to resupply Israel, and for Israel to pay the United States. The Iranian recipients promised to do everything in their power to achieve the release of the hostages.[4][5] However, as documented by a congressional investigation, the first Reagan-sponsored secret arms sales to Iran began in 1981 before any of the American hostages had been taken in Lebanon. This fact ruled out the "arms for hostages" explanation by which the Reagan administration sought to excuse its behavior.[6]
Evidence beyond the Documents:
This additional piece of evidence must be different from the evidence used to earn the point for contextualization.
Answer:
“The great questions of our time will not be settled by resolutions and by majority votes—that was the mistake of 1848 and 1849—but by blood and iron.”
Explanation:
Otto Von Bismark was also called Iron chancellor because of the stress he laid on the military advancement for the unification of Germany. He made a speech on 30 September 1882 which became his most remarkable speech and it was named 'Blood and Iron Speech', holding the last words of the speech. While the Prussian House of Representative reluctant to approve military spending, wished by the King, Bismark was chosen as Foreign minister to solve the issue regarding the unification of Germany.
