The Berlin Act was a work product of the Berlin Conference of 1884 wherein Otto Von Bismarck entered Germany into the mix for the colonization of Africa.
The Berlin Act marks the beginning of the true formal scramble for Africa as European Nations fought for land on the African continent.
Civilization of Mesopotamia and enacted by king Hammurabi
The Jim Crow era directly followed the Reconstruction period in the United States history. The name Jim Crow comes from a white actor who portrayed a dim witted black slave in the 1830's. Jim Crow is used to describe segregation laws, customs, etc.
Answer:
To be found in ¨The Age of Extremes¨ by Eric Hobsbawm
Explanation:
Hobsbawm states that the Cold War was based on a Western belief, absurd in retrospect but natural enough in the aftermath of the Second World War, that the Age of Catastrophe was by no means at an end. J.F. Kennedy, one of the most overrated presidents according to Hobsbawm, shows this belief by saying: ´The enemy is the communist system itself... this is a struggle for supremacy between two conflicting ideologies: freedom under God versus ruthless, godless tyranny.´
It is exactly this democratic freedom that ironically fueled the Cold War fire.
Where the Sovjet government didn´t have to bother about winning votes the U.S. government did.
Another element that contributed to move confrontation from the realm of reason to that of emotion was the schizoid demand of the vote-sensitive politicians to roll back the tide of ¨communist aggression¨.
On the other side of the globe the Sovjet government, with a country and economy in ruins after the Second World War, they needed all the economic help they could get to survive. So on any rational assessment the U.S.S.R. presented no immediate danger.
<span>The
mechanism establishing natural price by Adam Smith connects with effective
demand and free competition. If you cut the supply of goods, the demand for
them is higher. Because of this, there competition between buyers. Afraid not
get the right product, they agree to buy it at a higher cost. The market price
will rise. When supply and demand are roughly equal, the market value
corresponds to approximately natural.</span>
