Arid and semi-arid regions often have to go through long periods of drought.A drought is basically a situation in which an area of land gets insufficient rainfall, causing a lot of suffering to those who inhabit these regions. Some of these drought-prone areas include deserts of Australia, parts of India and Sudan among others.
<u>The outbreak of the Second World War happened.</u> The rise of fascism in Italy and Germany worried Roosevelt for what was preparing the country for a war. In the Second World War he sided with France and Britain helping these countries economically breaking the law of neutrality of the United States.
Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.