The Long and Short-Term Causes of WW2

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The Iran-Contra Affair was a 1980s military-industrial complex scandal where Reagan gave tacit approval to his security council to finance the Contras of Nicaragua by over-charing Iran for weapons.

As Ukraine regained its nationalistic identity in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution, Stalin’s Holodomor Genocide, a forced famine, was intended to break their spirit of independence from Russia.

The battles of Lexington and Concord are recognized as the first military engagement of the Revolutionary War as the Redcoats attempted to seize the Patriot’s military supplies, the shot heard ’round the world changed the trajectory of American History.

On April 18th, 1775, Paul Revere and William Dawes were dispatched to spread the news of a British order to seize the patriot’s military supplies, the final spark that lit the revolutionary war.

Jacques Cousteau was a deep-sea explorer, inventor, documentarian, author and environmental activist who led many famous expeditions and efforts to understand the ocean.

After the Revolutionary War, aggression against American settlers resulted in the Battle of Fallen Timbers on August 20, 1794, which ended in another crushing defeat for Native Americans.

Born in 1767 Montreal, Toussaint Charbonneau would prove a valuable hire as an interpreter by Lewis and Clark during their expedition through Native American territories. Charbonneau married five Native American women, most famously Sacagawea.