The major events that increased polarization on the world stage from the close of world war II through 1961 had to do with the Cold War between Russia and the US--primarily proxy wars such as the Korean War.
Among other things, an unbelievable inflation hit Europe during that period.
It was caused by what the Spanish empire did. It brought back huge amount of which
initiated the value of gold to plummet. Europe has never been in this situation
and it was incomprehensible to They thought more gold is better, but suddenly
prices started to increase bizarrely. There was also very few silver
being produced at the time, hence pirate attacks became very rampant.
A large part of the continent was torn apart by conflicts both domestic
and international between varying religions like Protestants and Catholics.
There was the Dutch revolution between 1568 and 1648, the French Wars of
Religion which lasted 36 years from 1562 to 1598, the Thirty Years War in 1618
through 1648, and the Spanish Armada Expedition, to name a few.
Another problem was in the East, the threat Ottoman Yurkey which posed
to Europe.
<span>There was also population decline, plague,
economic warfare, and famine. </span>
Answer:
spirit of cooperation ended abruptly in 1960, when the Soviets shot down an American U-2 spy plane over their territory"-755
Explanation:
President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) was the 34th president of the United States of America between 1953 to 1961. He worked well with the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to thaw the cold war at the end of 1950s. In May 1960, their cooperation ended prematurely when diplomatic crises erupted because the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) were said to have gunned down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space.
President Eisenhower was compelled to admit to the soviets that the central intelligence unit of his country has been sending out spy missions for several years in the USSR.
They wanted to reform the Church of England, but England wouldn't let them do that so they sailed for North America to make their own church.
The union was in the north where all of the factories were. The confederacy did not have the supplies that the union did.
