The cold war was silent just threats but it caried on because the soviet were unfair and dictateing.
Religion and culture are connected because depending on where you live and what your background culture is, this strongly affects how your beliefs about religion and which religion you will belong to in the first place are shaped. Both are very important and intertwined with culture itself.
Colonists were more interested in the fur trade than in permanent settlement. Hope this helps you :)
This was the time between World War One, 1914-1918, and World War Two, 1939-1945
