The European country was Spain. Spanish conquistadors were the first to explore and map out Texas in 1519.
The main reason why the United States involved itself in a civil dispute on the Korean peninsula in the 1950s was "<span>to exercise the policy of containment," since they were attempting to stop the spread of communism. </span>
The South was fighting a defensive war. The confederates prefer a defensive doctrine to defeat the numerically superior Union forces and to invite foreign powers especially Great Britain in their side thus winning the war against the Union forces in the American civil war.
