Religion was important because people wanted to have a reason for the changing of the seasons, even an answer to why the world was created. And even why we were created to answer the question of do we have a purpose or do we just exist? It drove society apart by making people pick sides of which religion is the right or even true religion.
The reconstruction plan, developed at a meeting of the participating European states, was drafted on June 5, 1947. It offered the same aid to the Soviet Union and its allies, but they refused to accept it,[8][9] as doing so would allow a degree of US control over the communist economies.[10] In fact, the Soviet Union prevented its satellite states (i.e., East Germany, Poland, etc.) from accepting. Secretary Marshall became convinced Stalin had no interest in helping restore economic health in Western Europe.<span>[11]</span>
<span>a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.</span>
IT AFFECTED THEM BY THE WARS WE HAVE FOUGHT WITH THEM
