After the Soviet Union lost twenty million soldiers in WW2, Stalin wanted to make buffer zones around friendly states so they would never be invaded again.
Jacksons response to the Supreme Court’s decision was to ...refused to enforce...
Safavids were members of a dynasty that had ruled Persia through 1502 to 1736 and they made the Shia as there state religion
The formation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact were similar in that they ("<span>B) called for collective security against outside threats," since this was during the Cold War, with NATO being an alliance of western, mostly capitalist states, and the Warsaw Pact representing the Soviet Sphere in the East. </span>