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After the end of the Cold War, the US military-industrial complex was only temporarily affected by a reduction in defense spending, following arms disarmament treaties and given the weakening of the Soviet threat. In 2000, a decade after the end of the Cold War, the GDP percentage of defense spending was only 3.7%, a historic low. Nevertheless, US military expenditures have been growing in the last decades. They started to grow again after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. The federal defense budget for 2019 is $716 billion.
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A lot of people died and they wore masks during the black death
King Darius died, his son Xerxes took over, 300 spartans died (including King Leonidas), Persia was defeated by the Greek.
