The economic catastrophe of the 18th century led up to the 1789 assembly by fundamentally bankrupting the French royal government. Moreover, the parliament was declining to pass seriously needed financial improvements due to the benefits of its members. Intrinsically, the estates general was called both to live through parliament and to answer the kingdom's numerous financial and social problems.
<span>True, Children worked as much as 10 to 12 hours a day in dangerous factories during the Industrial Revolution</span>
America declared its independence in 1776, but it took another five years to win freedom from the British. That day came on October 19, 1781, when the British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his troops in Yorktown, Virginia.
General Cornwallis brought 8,000 British troops to Yorktown. They expected help from British ships sent from New York. The British ships never arrived. That was lucky for General George Washington and the Continental army. The thirteen colonies found their opportunity to beat the world's largest empire.
<span>Soviet Union
All proxy wars in the Cold war were related to the strategy of containing communism so that it would not spread beyond the Soviet Union. Vietnam, Korea and other proxy fights and funding of rebels (Such as Afghanistan) was to push back communism. There was never a serious attempt to fight communism at the source of its power in the Soviet Union as this would have most likely caused a nuclear war.</span>
