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Explanation:
"Four score and seven years ago our father brought forth on this continent, a new nation..."
- Referred to American Revolution (1776)
"...conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to proposition that all men are created equal."
"Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure."
- The Civil War was a test of democracy.
"We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live."
-The reason for the ceremony
"...that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion..."
- The dead inspire the living.
"...and that government of the people, by the people, for the people..."
- Reaffirmed the idea of government by consent of the people
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In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955. The alignment of nearly every European nation into one of the two opposing camps formalized the political division of the European continent that had taken place since World War II. This alignment provided the framework for the military standoff that continued throughout the Cold War.
