<span> because billions of dollars and millions of lives were lost in the fight.</span>
Answer:
The Roman Catholic Church
Explanation:
Before Copernicus's Heliocentric Theory, The Catholic Church believed in Greek philosopher Aristotle's Geocentric Theory, where the Earth was the center of the universe. He believed- and I kid you not, that everything moving in the sky was propelled by the world-soul, or soul of the planet, and that their orbits were explained by huge, perfect, chrystalline spheres that contained the celestial bodies and surrounded Earth like a Russian nesting doll. The Catholic Church adopted this theory and sprinkled Jesus on top.
Copernicus (and after him, Galileo) contributed to the disproving of these literally ancient notions.
I think that Hitler saw in Austria the chance to increase the number of loyal, German soldiers - Austrians speak German and are culturally similar so it was easy to include them into the German army and so quickly acquire a great number of loyal soldiers who spoke the language and shared the culture with the Germans.
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An example of an organization that sprung from the Second Great Awakening was the "American Bible Society" which promoted Christian education throughout the US.
