The paramilitary White Guards , composed of farmers , along with middle-class and upper-class social Social_event strata , controlled Control rural central and northern Finland .

The war , and especially the following occupation by the U.S. , changed Change the culture of the islands , leading to Causation the disestablishment of the Catholic Church in the Philippines as a state religion , and the introduction of English to the islands as the primary language of government , education , business , industry , and , in future decades , among upper-class families and educated individuals .