It allowed transportation to be quicker and efficient
The battle of Midway was won by the US soldiers who fought bravely against the Japanese. The japanese forces never really recuperated following this defeat and this enabled the US forces to victoriously march on in the future battles of the war.
United States did not like communism in the 50's and 60's. So they fought proxy wars with the U.S.S.R., now dissolved in to different countries.<span />
After World War 2 Germany was dived into half. The western half was under American control and the Eastern half was under Russian control. Berlin lay in the Western half and was divided between Russia and America, meaning that East Berlin was an island of Russian controlled Germany surrounded by areas under American control. Russia was a communist country and people from East Berlin tried to flee to West Berlin and so the Berlin Wall was built to stop this.Until the east Germans were rescued by pink Floyd!
The Stamp Act, Tea Act and Intolerable Acts were put into place without the consent of the colonists. This proved that Britain was not treating them as citizens, but merely as servants to their mother country.
The Americans realized that Britain was not going to stop enacting laws in the colonies this way, and they knew that secession was inevitable.
