They got support from the British and other major world powers then they settled because they found themselves as being superior because wit their color. They also had better weapons than the South Africans so they could easily defeat them.
Germany had lost land that they previously owned. <span>Alsace-Lorraine was given back to France, Malmedy was given to Belgium, North Schleswig was given to Denmark, Memel was given to Lithuania, West Prussia (including the ‘Polish corridor’), and Upper Silesia was given to Poland. Danzig was made a ‘free city’. In all, Germany lost 10% of its land, 12% of its population, 16% of its coalfields, and 50% of its iron and steel industry.</span>
Answer:
To be found in ¨The Age of Extremes¨ by Eric Hobsbawm
Explanation:
Hobsbawm states that the Cold War was based on a Western belief, absurd in retrospect but natural enough in the aftermath of the Second World War, that the Age of Catastrophe was by no means at an end. J.F. Kennedy, one of the most overrated presidents according to Hobsbawm, shows this belief by saying: ´The enemy is the communist system itself... this is a struggle for supremacy between two conflicting ideologies: freedom under God versus ruthless, godless tyranny.´
It is exactly this democratic freedom that ironically fueled the Cold War fire.
Where the Sovjet government didn´t have to bother about winning votes the U.S. government did.
Another element that contributed to move confrontation from the realm of reason to that of emotion was the schizoid demand of the vote-sensitive politicians to roll back the tide of ¨communist aggression¨.
On the other side of the globe the Sovjet government, with a country and economy in ruins after the Second World War, they needed all the economic help they could get to survive. So on any rational assessment the U.S.S.R. presented no immediate danger.
Nixon stepped down in 1974, halfway through his second term, rather than face impeachment over his efforts to cover up illegal activities by members of his administration in the Watergate scandal.
June 25th, 1950 I believe! :P
