Answer to question 1:
The "Dark Ages" is a historical periodization traditionally referring to the Middle Ages (c. 5th–15th century) that asserts that a demographic, cultural, and economic deterioration occurred in Western Europe following the decline of the Roman Empire.
Answer to question 3:
Chivalry has changed quite a bit since it appeared in the middle ages. ... In social situations, chivalry is still acceptable. That said, I think it comes down to men and women being courteous to each other rather than men being the only ones practicing courteous acts. A woman should hold the door open for men and women.
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French people are the best they are truly amazing people. They should see it as a negative because napoleon practically went bankrupt and practically ruined France's economy.
The CIA was created to be a clearinghouse for foreign policy intelligence and analysis and was formed on July 26, 1947 when Truman signed the Naional Security Act into Law.
A force to create it was the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The correct answer is 1) Soviet influences spread across Eastern Europe sharply during and after World War II.
It is clear that socialism in the eastern part of Europe became much more popular and at the time seen as an ideological system victorious over extreme right national socialism (under the flags of Nazi Germany, Italy). In so, the intrinsic dynamic of Soviet socialism was another form of conquest. Soviet influences expanded regaining the territories that were previously invaded by Germany or other powers (in the case of Baltic states). The reasons were not only based the military results by that time (1945-1948) but by the notion that socialism was a new and more efficient way of settling issues in the European and capitalist world, thereby causing the empathy from some neighbour states and also expanding with the introduction of "puppet states" loyal to the Soviet Union.
Examples of this were: the government created in Poland, Checoslovakia or some other socialist republics.
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