<span>Let’s
start with the Cardinal first. Richelieu was a talented statesman and
politician, and as Chief Minister of the king (Louis XIII at that time) he
consolidated royal power at the expense of the nobles, and made France a strong
centralized state. The King Louis XIV, basically, followed the Cardinal’s
footsteps and went further by housing most of them in the Versailles Palace. In
addition, the king used entertaining, impressing, and domesticating them with
extravagant luxury to keep a close eye and a heavy heel on the aristocracy.</span>
        
             
        
        
        
Answer: The United States and 11 other Western nations founded the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1949 in response to the threat of potential Communist expansion. (\sNATO). The Warsaw Pact, a rival organization, was founded in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its communist allies in Eastern Europe.
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A. Supported the right of the Cherokee people to maintain a separate political identity.