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Yes
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They were being controlled by the British, which were across the world so they didn't even know the problems Americans needed fixed. They also did taxation without representation which means they taxed the Americans without letting them have a say in it
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Russia. Until 1905, the Tsars and Emperors of Russia governed as absolute monarchs. Ivan the Terrible was known for his reign of terror through oprichnina. Peter I the Great reduced the power of the Russian nobility and strengthened the central power of the monarch, establishing a bureaucracy and a police state.
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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
First Amendment. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
To help former slaves and poor whites in the south in the after math of the war