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RONALD REAGAN: "STAR WARS"

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In a speech from the Oval Office on this day in 1983, President Ronald Reagan called for defending the United States against a first-strake attack by developing a Strategic Defense Initiative system.  It gained the nickname “Star Wars”, after the futuristic Hollywood movie. Reagan’s goal was to mount a near-total defense against a massive sophisticated intercontinental ballistic missile attack. Star Wars called for the building a network of ground-based and space-based systems to shield the country; the space-based portion would have used lasers armed with nuclear warheads to shoot down incoming Soviet missiles.
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Causes of the civil war

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Feeling excluded from the political system, they turned to the only alternative they believed was left to them: secession, a political decision that led directly to war.  A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the moral issue of slavery. In fact, it was the economics of slavery and political control of that system that was central to the conflict. A key issue was states' rights. The Southern states wanted to assert their authority over the federal government so they could abolish federal laws they didn't support, especially laws interfering with the South's right to keep slaves and take them wherever they wished. Another factor was territorial expansion. The South wished to take slavery into the western territories, while the North was committed to keeping them open to white labor alone. Meanwhile, the newly formed Republican party, whose members were strongly opposed to the westward expansion of slavery into new states, was gaining pro...
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