Ireland, due to the potato famine.
Their plan was called the Anaconda plan.
They wanted to blockade the Southern coast to prevent them from receiving resources from other countries. They also wanted to capture the Mississippi River to effectively cut the Confederacy in half (Battle of Vicksburg). The final step in their plan was to capture the Confederate capital city (Richmond).
In the 1930s, as a reply to the increasing agitation in Europe and Asia that would eventually lead to World War II, the United States Congress passed the Neutrality Acts. These were impelled by the growing isolationism and non-interventionism policy that followed the expensive involvement in World War I and aimed to guarantee that the country would not become compromised over foreign conflicts again.
In 1941 the Neutrality Acts were widely repealed. The Lend-Lease policy aimed to defeat Germany, Japan, and Italy by distributing supplies between 1941 and 1945 put an end to the United States' pretense of neutrality.
The geography of Texas is diverse and far reaching in scope. Occupying about 7% of the total water and land area of the U.S. <span>it is the second largest state after </span>Alaska<span> and is the southernmost part of the </span>Great Plains<span>, which end in the south against the folded </span>Sierra Madre Oriental<span> of </span>Mexico<span>.</span>
Gorbachev implemented a ton of radical reforms, which is just one of many things that led to the fall of the Soviet Union. Also, 1991 is the year the Cold War ended.
