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recovery and the cold war
Explanation: a war costs a lot of money and the Soviet Union under Stalin didnt want to invest that money into the people but instead put it in the military to rival the United States and Stalin thought the more the people suffered the more likely they are to turn to communism and as the Cold War raged on money still maily went to the military which then caused the Soviet Unions collapse
The ideas of the French Enlightenment philosophes strongly influenced the American revolutionaries. French intellectuals met in salons like this one to exchange ideas and define their ideals such as liberty, equality, and justice.
Competition between european countries such as portugal and spain affect overseas exploration and expansion, they didn´t want to go to America, they both wanted to go to Asia, and Africa, trade with asia, get their riches, improve technology and covert people to Christian. Christopher Columbus wanted to go to Asia when he found america, as a result of all that competition, spanish and portuguese established colonies in america.
World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history in terms of total dead, with some 75 million people casualties including military and civilians. Many civilians died because of deliberate genocide, massacres, mass-bombings, disease, and starvation.
