I’m confused what are you trying to say? please elaborate?
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The (non-existing) communist threat.
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The. Berlin Blockade (1948-1949) can be seen, in retrospect, as the start of the Cold War. The Sovjets blocked the Western sectors of Berlin as a protest to the introduction of the Deutsche Mark in Berlin. This event troubled the already tense relationship between the two world powers.
Now it must be said that from the beginning the wide-spread belief that the U.S.S.R and it´s communist comrades (Cuba) was going to complete what Hitler couldn´t manage, i.e. conquer the whole world, was, in retrospect, an absurd idea from the American side.
This by paranoia fueled belief - see for more information Eric Hobsbawm in <em>The Age of Extremes </em>- was shown clearly in the Truman Doctrine, the failed invasion in Cuba and the Cuban Missile Crisis, not to mention the Vietnam War in which several American presidents <em>¨tapped their way through a dense cloud of incomprehension, confusion and paranoia.¨ </em>Eric Hobsbawm
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songhai society traditionally was highly structured, comprising a king and nobility, free commoners, artisans, griots (bards and chroniclers, and slaves. marriage could be polygnous, cross cousins being preferred partners. So basically it was a strange little society.
The existing political authority was based on absolutism and the people in charge were monarchs who exploited the people and made many bad mistakes which harmed their respective countries. They also only cared about their personal wealth and lives and didn't care about the people at all.
The french revolution wanted to end this and they were inspired by enlightenment philosophers who believed that power comes from the people and not from the divine will that chooses monarchs. This inspired people to change the government and put in a new republican government which would be based on suffrage and end of tyranny.
Answer: Europe was divided into Western Europe and Eastern Europe by the Iron Curtain. Western Europe promoted capitalist democracies, and Eastern Europe came under the Communist influence of the Soviet Union.
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