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Use the document to answer the following questions. The British Parliament debated a bill that would ban factory owners from hiring children under the age of nine or working children
under sixteen longer than sixteen hours in a day. "[Lord Kenyon] proceeded to enter into some detail of the evidence given before the committee, for the purpose of showing the Injury that resulted to the health of the children, from being employed for 14, 15, or 16 hours a day in places heated to 80, 85 and nearly 90 degrees... The Earl of Rosslyn said, . . . (it was) as an incontestible fact, that parents were the natural guardians of the health and prosperity of their own children, and that
the legislature ought to be slow to interfere with free labour.... “—from the record of the House of Lords debate on the Cotton Factories Regulation Bill, June 14,1819. Is Lord Kenyon's evidence of children's working conditions in cotton mills believable?
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What was the essence of the disagreement between the US and Soviet union in Europe? Stalin's refusal to allow free elections in Poland convinced Truman that US and Soviet aims were deeply odds.
What was the disagreement between the US and the Soviet Union?
As World War II transformed both the United States and the USSR, turning the nations into formidable world powers, competition between the two increased. Following the defeat of the Axis powers, an ideological and political rivalry between the United States and the USSR gave way to the start of the Cold War.
What was the main cause of conflict between the USA and the Soviet Union after World War II?
SPREAD OF COMMUNISM
As stated above, there was a major ideological conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union at the outset of the Cold War. The United States, led by Harry S. Truman feared that communism as an ideology would spread throughout Europe and the rest of the world.
What was the main issue between United States and the Soviet Union?
Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. The Cold War was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons.