World History Questions

The three major amendments that were passed shortly after the Civil War are the reconstruction amendments that were the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.

The 13th Amendment abolished slavery,

The 14th granted African American citizenship and equal protection before the law, (and)

The 15th Amendment attempted to secure the right to vote for newly freed slaves. 

Lord Cornwallis

In june 1950, in South Korea

Woodrow Wilson was one of the major "Progressives" in American government and so 'He wanted to place strict government controls on corporations.'

Sirimao Bandara Naike

The Cold War started with building tensions between the US and the USSR during World War II. As Stalin began to annex more countries and spread communism throughout Eastern Europe, the US began to feel threatened and feared that they would start a war amongst the capitalist nations. The US started an attempt to limit the spread of communism and protect capitalism, which led to a series of passive aggressive and indirectly hostile exchanges between the two nations.

The beginning of the end of the cold war, the Berlin Wall came down. The USSR began to collapse the following year, in 1990.