The major causes of World War II were numerous. They include the impact of the Treaty of Versailles following WWI, the worldwide economic depression, failure of appeasement, the rise of militarism in Germany and Japan, and the failure of the League of Nations. Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, marking the beginning of World War II. Over the next six years, the conflict would take more lives and destroy more land and property around the globe than any previous war. Many Americans volunteered to defend the nation from enemy bombing or invasion. They trained in first aid, aircraft spotting, bomb removal, and fire fighting. Air raid wardens led practice drills, including blackouts. By mid-1942 over 10 million Americans were civil defense volunteers.
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To promote peace throughout their region, five Iroquoian-speaking tribes came together to form the Iroquois League (later the Iroquois Confederacy
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Segregation was an useful tool in preserving the economic and social dominance of the white southerners. With segregation the African Americans were being discriminated against and kept in socially inferior position thus enabling the whites to get better paying jobs and generally better positions thus continuing the cycle of economical dominance of the white southerners.
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This statement abolished slavery as a government amendment after the Civil War.
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This passage describes the thirteenth constitutional amendment which is the amendment that officially ended slavery in the USA. This amendment was approved after the American Civil War, where the victory of the union, formed by the northern states that were against slavery, allowed slavery to be ended and banned once and for all. The amendment, as is already known, is still valid today and represents a great victory for the African-American people.