There are several different reasons, but in the end, they all equal to one thing. That was to fight for independence from Britain. Thomas Paine wrote "Common Sense" to rally the cause of independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. <span>Paine </span>wrote<span> the </span>pamphlet<span> to change the minds of people who wanted to peacefully settle their differences with the British government to fight for independence instead. </span>
The destruction of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by American atomic weapons in August 1945 began an arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
