In an effort to discourage Japanese militarism, Western powers including Australia, the United States, Britain, and the Dutch government in exile, which controlled the petroleum-rich Dutch East Indies, stopped selling iron ore, steel and oil to Japan, denying it the raw materials needed to continue its activities in China and French Indochina.
While the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination of public places and businesses based on sex, race, national origin, or religion, the Civil Rights Act of 1968 outlawed discrimination when buying or renting a home as well as strengthened anti-lynching laws.
<span>delegates from the German states gathered at the Frankfurt Assembly to discuss plans to "unite the German states" into a single, democratic state.
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1. direct vote by citizens on a bill already passed by a lawmaking body - referendum.
2. government that suppresses all opposition and controls all aspects of people's lives - totalitarian.
3. greed for wealth - avarice.
4. the right to vote - franchise.
5. the right of ordinary citizens to introduce or enact new laws on their own by vote - intiative.
6. government in which a few people hold the ruling power - oligarchy.
7. method of temporary banishment practiced in athens - ostracism.
