“For those who had lived through 1940, the picture was all too familiar. Belgian townspeople put away their Allied flags and brought out their swastikas,” the center writes. “Police in Paris enforced an all-night curfew. British veterans waited nervously to see how the Americans would react to a full-scale German offensive, and British generals quietly acted to safeguard the Meuse River's crossings. Even American civilians, who had thought final victory was near were sobered by the Nazi onslaught.”
Citizen participation in Ancient Athens differs from that in
the United States in that the Greeks had direct democracy and effectively
direct participation of people in government whereas the United States has
representative democracy. This means that citizens vote for people that make
the decisions in government
