The Confederate government passed the first conscription act in American history, implemented national taxes, created a national currency, and had a
government bureaucracy of about seventy thousand people - why are these
things ironic?

to extend a country’s power and influence

basically means the stoc market is going down since   dow is one of the most sucessful buiness it would be a tragedy for it to go down and it ensures the ruinty of the stock market

they gained control over the philippines, east dutch indies/indonesia, much of new guinea, the solomon islands, guam, and other strategic areas all over the western pacific. japan even occupied part of the aleutian islands, which belonged to alaska.

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