The Cultural Nations of America

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During the Cold War, Egypt seized control of the Suez Canal causing Britain, France, and Israel to strike Egypt in 1956, known as the Suez Canal Crisis. Soviet’s threatened a nuclear response, while the US used economic sanctions to resolve the conflict.

Nonviolent protests over high taxes to repay Revolutionary War debts turned violent in what is known as Shays’ Rebellion. In 1787, a planned attack on the federal arsenal was thwarted and the rebellion squashed but not without legislative repercussions.

In 1969, Russian and Chinese hostilities ignited over a disputed border along a Siberian River, resulting in a conflict that almost turned nuclear before the US stepped in to cool the situation.

The civilization of Sparta in ancient Greece was notorious for training their youth to become warriors, while enslaving prisoners to work for their benefit, at the same time giving women equal rights with free men.

After WWI, the League of Nations was organized to place limits on the horrors of war, such as the use of chemical and biological weapons.

With fears of European powers trying to colonize the western hemisphere yet again, The Monroe Doctrine declared the west off-limits to European interference, although US military enforcement would not be possible for years to come.

After graduating from Yale in 1792, Eli Whitney solved a common problem faced by plantation owners harvesting cotton with the Cotton Gin which quickly separated seeds from fibers.