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Answer: Republican nominee Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democratic president Jimmy Carter in a landslide victory. This was the second successive election in which the incumbent president was defeated, after Carter himself defeated Gerald Ford four years earlier in 1976.
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Perry help the United States expand its influence in Asia as he negotiated the first treaty between the United States and Japan (Kanagawa Treaty).
The Kanagawa Treaty was signed on March 31, 1854 between Commodore Matthew Perry of the United States and the authorities of Japan, in the Japanese port of Shimoda. This treaty ended with 251 years of Japan's isolation and, at the same time, with its policy of exclusion (Sakoku), thus opening the Japanese ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to trade with the United States, guaranteeing the safety of American shipwrecks and establishing a permanent consul.
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand that lead to the devastating, destructive period known as WWI.
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