The Long and Short-Term Causes of WW2

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During the 1972 re-election campaign of President Nixon, the Watergate Scandal was uncovered by FBI whistleblowers, resulting in Nixon’s resignation from office.

Clara Barton was a self-taught nurse who got on-site training during the Civil War where she tended to the wounded on active battlefields. Barton would successfully start the American Red Cross and ambulance first responders.

Following decades of indigenous pushback against French colonization in Southeast Asia, France’s victory over China in the Sino-French War handed control of modern Vietnam, Thailand and more.

As Europeans settled the New England Colonies of Plymouth and more, early trade with Native Americans included the transmission of foreign diseases such as smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera and more, decimating native populations.

The Napoleonic Wars began within a year of Napoleon Bonaparte’s rise to power in France, including attempted invasions of much of Europe before his eventual defeat in 1815.

In 1858, British Imperialism exerted governance over India for the next 89 years, until Gandhi and others began peaceful protests for independence.

While studying in Portugal, Christopher Columbus became convinced a Northwest Passage to Asia existed and was motivated to find it. Sponsored by the Spanish monarchy, Columbus made three voyages to the New World, mostly throughout the Bahamas.