What did the passage of the eighteenth amendment and the volstead act bring about?

Why did the national government under the articles of confederation face bankruptcy?

Where did the term “iron curtain” originate? the warsaw pact used the term iron curtain as a code word for communism. in a 1946 speech, british prime minister winston churchill said an iron curtain had fallen across the continent of europe. while visiting western europe in 1946, u.s. president harry truman commented that the mountains there looked like iron curtains. russian general secretary joseph stalin instructed citizens of eastern europe to hang iron curtains over their windows to protect themselves from stray bullets.

Based on this map, approximately how far did the songhai empire stretch east tward into the interior from the coast