The reconstrutcion time was a sucess. After the war the south needed to change their whole life because slavery was no longer a choice of life. The northerns had to help the southerns re build their ways of life. We had to reunite the two parts of the country and did so. Iraq is also a sucess because we are staarting to rebuild so if a dictator would try to take over the country, the country's people could stand up for themselves.