<span>The most important reason that President Lincoln did not want Maryland to secede from the Union had to do with the location of Washington, D.C. Maryland lies to the north of Washington. This meant that, if Maryland were to secede, the capitol of the United States would have been cut off from any contact with the US and would surely have fallen to the Confederates.</span>
I'll first explain what the non-aggression pact was. It was an agreement that the Soviet Union and Germany would take no military action against each other. To answer your question it is B. The pact was to make sure he could safely attack Poland.
Answer: D is correct (Council of Trent).
Explanation: Council of Trent (1545-1563) initiated Counter-Reformation, i.e. Catholic Church (papacy) strategy against Protestantism and its expansion. One specific feature of Counter-Reformation was an expansion of Catholicism outside Europe. Again papacy became engaged polically (church was engaged politically already in the Middle Ages). Council of Trent was 19th ecumenical council of the Catholic church. It was presided by three popes: Paul III, Julius III, Pius IV.
It was mostly the Holocaust that inspired the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, since this was indeed one of the most severe human ...