ANSWER: they provided shelter from rain, heat and wind
A. Portugal had already built their empire by that time, so really Spain benefited the most from this.
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The US devised the Manhattan project during ww2 and afterwards to develop nuclear weapons. The kept this secret from USSR even though they were allied. This contributed to Stalin’s paranoia and increased tensions between the two countries.
You also mention how Truman used this ‘atomic-monopoly’ to give him confidence and make him think that he could dictate decisions during the Potsdam conference and other meetings which heightened tensions with USSR.
Nuclear weapons also played a large role during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the point where nuclear war was at it’s closest to becoming reality and destroying the world.
By that point the USSR had also developed atomic bombs. The fact both superpowers had nuclear weapons meant they had to be sensitive in the way they handled each other and you could link this with Cuba and argue that it was the only reason the Cold War didn’t turn into full-scale, physical war.
There’s other things you could say beyond these points as well.
<span>During the Second Punic War, Macedonia had been allied wtih Carthage. To get revenge, Rome started a war against Macedonia and defeated it in 197 B.C. The Greek cities came under Roman protection. By 133 B.C. Rome had extened its control over the entire region. It was now the supreme power in the Mediterranean.</span><span />
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One major colonial policy that had an important effect in this violent and non-violent (in some cases) transition was called apartheid. Apartheid was a system set in South Africa that was designed to demotivate black people from achieving anything and put white people in power.
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