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Dwight D. Eisenhower ended his presidency by warning of the military-industrial complex, yet couped Guatemala for the United Fruit Company, what explains this dissonance?

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I've been told that in the US the North also benefited significantly from slavery, albeit indirectly, but if that were true how did the Northern economy after the Civil War manage to boom rather than crash?

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Dwight D. Eisenhower ended his presidency by warning of the military-industrial complex, yet couped Guatemala for the United Fruit Company, what explains this dissonance?	136
I've been told that in the US the North also benefited significantly from slavery, albeit indirectly, but if that were true how did the Northern economy after the Civil War manage to boom rather than crash?	12