The USA and the USSR were at odds over how Europe would be governed after the war. The USA (and its democratic partners among the Allies) wanted free and open elections in the countries of Eastern Europe coming out from under Nazi domination. The Soviet Union wanted states allied and aligned with it to prevent any future aggression against the USSR (like how Germany had invaded). The USSR ended up heavily influencing the Eastern European countries to align with communism, bringing them behind what British prime minister Winston Churchill called "The Iron Curtain."
The situation of Germany itself was also a tension spot. Germany was divided between the four Allied nations (Britain, France, the USA, and the USSR). The British, French and American sectors combined their governance of West Germany and West Berlin. The Americans and their partners sought to preserve democratic freedoms in the area or Germany under their control. The Soviets blockaded Berlin (located within the Soviet sector of East Germany). The American side responded with the Berlin Airlift to keep West Berlin free of Soviet control.
The efforts of Dorothea Dix changed the living conditions of the mentally ill from prisons to hospitals. She was an American activist on behalf of the poor people suffering from insanity whom she ended up creating asylums for. She did this through several strong programs of lobbying state legislatures and doing this through the United States Congress.
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As much as i know they weren't pursuing a closer relation with them, as they were de-facto enemies in the Cold war (1947-1991)
In the Soviet Union, propaganda was used extensively in order to spread the dominant Marxist-Leninist ideology and to promote support for the Communist Party. During the government of Stalin, it became present everywhere, including in the social and natural sciences taught at school.
All published items were not only subject to censorship if they contained undesirable information, but they were also edited to promote particular views. The figure of Stalin was greatly idealized. He was presented as a benevolent, protective father figure and a hero of the Revolution.
Any deviation from ideology could be punished by execution and labor camps, as well as punitive psychiatry and loss of citizenship.
The total amount of money in circulation or in existence in a country.
