<span>The Japanese captured the British colonies of Singapore, Burma, and Hong Kong.
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They were mainly agriculture based and slavery was free labor.
U.S. participation in NATO was a break with tradition, since the United States for the first time set itself up to automatically get involved in foreign conflicts--something that was very unnerving for a country of people who for most of American's history had been very isolationist.
The one that the <span>us constitution does not provide is the Military
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