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The Eighteenth Amendment declared the production, transport, and sale of intoxicating liquors illegal, though it did not outlaw the actual consumption of alcohol. Shortly after the amendment was ratified, Congress passed the Volstead Act to provide for the federal enforcement of Prohibition.
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Treaty of Nanjing, (August 29, 1842) treaty that ended the first Opium War, the first of the unequal treaties between China and foreign imperialist powers. China paid the British an indemnity, ceded the territory of Hong Kong, and agreed to establish a “fair and reasonable” tariff. British merchants, who had previously been allowed to trade only at Guangzhou (Canton), were now permitted to trade at five “treaty ports” and with whomever they pleased (see Canton system). The treaty was supplemented in 1843 by the British Supplementary Treaty of the Bogue, which allowed British citizens to be tried in British courts and granted Britain any rights in China that China might grant to other countries. See also British East India Company; Lin Zexu.
After the end of World War II it was the time of decline of European colonies which lead to the rise of new superpowers and emergence of several new countries on the map.
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After WWII Europe was divided into USA captured Europe and USSR capture Europe. The end of the war increased the rate of decolonization. Independence being granted from great powers like India from United Kingdom, Indonesia from Netherland. The Philippines from The United States and several Arab nations get free from the superpowers.
This happened because the superpowers were badly affected by the war and they were not able to rule other nations anymore so they have to step back. Thus how the World War II led to the origin of independence and even the formation of so many new countries and nations.
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