Answer:
The construction of the Suez and Panama canals had substantial impacts on global trade, mainly over two factors.
Explanation:
The first and most obvious concerns the reduction of travel distances between economic regions. The second relates to the introduction of the steamship during the same time period which was able to use more direct routes at a faster and consistent speed, compounding the gains from shorter travel distances.
In the first unqualified defeat of a British naval squadron in history, U.S. Captain Oliver Hazard Perry<span> leads a fleet of nine American ships to victory over a squadron of six British warships at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.</span>
Answer:
The World War II was sucessfully ended by the Alliances launching systematic air strikes on German cities and as a consequence, killing more than 400,000 German civilians.
Explanation:
Royal Air Force and the US-Air Force were systematically air raiding cities, town and villages in Germany, from mid 1945 till German Nazi capitulation and end of the war in 1945.
This strategic bombing campaign did have devastating effect on the German civil population who were mostly victims.
As example, Dresden (East Germany) lost more than 20,000 civilians only in first two weeks of February, 1945.
