An important resource Spain wanted from its american colonies was "gold" but this was not found in North America. It was found in great quantities.
<span>The Homestead strike pitted one of the most powerful new corporations, Carnegie Steel Company, against the nation’s strongest trade union, the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. An 1889 strike had won the steelworkers a favorable three-year contract; but by 1892 Andrew Carnegie was determined to break the union. His plant manager, Henry Clay Frick, stepped up production demands, and when the union refused to accept the new conditions, Frick began locking the workers out of the plant.</span>
The deployment of the atomic bombs in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9 of 1945 were the events that would eventually bring the Second World War to an end, as the Japanese empire would sign its surrender to the Allies in 1945.
This was the opening event in the nuclear arms race that would continue throughout the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. A period of time that would last since the end of World War 2 until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
