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why didn't the USSR respond with force to the East German and Polish revolts, as they had back in the 50s and 60s?

DochEvi [55]

Answer:

Eric Hobsbawm, the Marxist British historian, wrote a book called The Short Twentieth Century. The 20th Century had been shorter than other centuries because it had begun in 1914 with the outbreak of the First World War and terminated of course early in November 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall. The problem however, and of course we historians we like problems, is that everybody knew what we had left behind with the fall of the wall, but nobody knew what we were heading towards. As Douglas Hurd, the British Foreign Secretary at the time, put it, “this was a system [the Cold War], this was a system under which we had lived quite happily for 40 years.” Or as Adam Michnik, again my Polish solidarity intellectual, put it “The worst thing about communism is what comes afterwards.” While our populations were in jubilation in front of the television screens or on the streets of Berlin, governments were, it has to be said, seriously worried about the implications of this unforeseen, uncontrolled and uncontrollable collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the communist system. Tom Wolf, the American author, at the time had a bestseller called the Bonfire of the Vanities and a British MP that I knew at the time famously rephrased that as the ‘bonfire of the certainties.’ All of the reference points with which we’d lived for half a century and which had organized our diplomacy, our military strategy, our ideology, were like as many props that were suddenly pulled from us.

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As a Filipino citizen how will you help the country to lessen the rate of poverty? Give at least 3 solutions or plans and explai

Karolina [17]

Answer:

Create Awareness. Social media has become an integral part of daily life, and now is the time to use it as a voice of social good. ...

Take Action on Your Own. ...

Donate. ...

Eliminate Gender Inequality. ...

Create Jobs Worldwide. ...

Increase Access to Proper Sanitation and Clean Water. ...

Educate Everyone.

♡Poverty is associated with a host of health risks, including elevated rates of heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, cancer, infant mortality, mental illness, undernutrition, lead poisoning, asthma, and dental problems. ...

♡Greater Access to Education: A factor of systemic poverty is a lack of access to education in impoverished areas. People gain basic skills and increased job opportunities through education, which can help to combat poverty in

the Philippines.

♡Increased access to education can contribute to reducing poverty. Acquired basic skills such as reading, writing and numeracy, have a documented positive effect on marginalized populations' incomes. It increases the rate of return on the economy.

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3 years ago

If you were able to meet ANYONE. Even if they are dead. Who would you like to meet?

Pani-rosa [81]

I would probably meet Abraham Lincoln

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How did Spanish colonies differ from French and English colonies?

KATRIN_1 [288]

Answer:

B The encomienda system subjected native peoples to forced labor.

Explanation:

Spanish colonies followed a semi-feudal system in which the King granted the Encomienda. It provided colonist with land and forced labor. Forced labor was used for everything from agriculture to mining. Slavery existed, but it was concentrated in the Caribbean Island and in the coastal areas which had a smaller native population.

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3 years ago

Which best explains why the Gutenberg press transformed European Society?

jolli1 [7]

Answer:

It increased printing speed while reducing cost, allowing printed ideas to spread more widely and quickly.

Explanation:

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