The Cold War existed as a response of the Western capitalist countries of Europe and the US and Canada to the threat they considered the Soviet Union posed to their economic and political interests both in Europe and also throughout the world. They felt this threat from the Eastern European countries that were invaded by the Soviet Union in their drive to defeat Hitler. After the war many of these countries like Romania, Czechoslovakia etc had socialist governments like the Soviet Union and were considered part of the Soviet sphere of influence. Eastern and Western Germany divided by the Berlin Wall were symbolic of this division. After the WWII and also the death of Stalin, there was major contention between what came to be known as the two world superpowers, the US and the Soviet Union and there was a near nuclear war over for example the US stopping the installation of missiles in Cuba in the early '60's.
Answer : The correct answer is : The University of Kansas Professor, Donald Worster is a leader in the field of environmental history. In his book Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s he says that the Dust Bowl was formed in just 50 years, the Americans made their way through a very ruthless and devastating continent, summarizes that the Dust Bowl was the inevitable result of a culture that deliberately and consciously set out the task of dominating and exploiting the earth. The United States found volatile land destroying the ecological balance. But Professor Douglas Hurt head of the history department at Purdue, in his book The Dust Bowl: An Agricultural and Social History says that dust storms were not exclusive to the 1930s, that many factors contributed to their formation, such as : soils subject to wind, erosions, droughts, the nature of the soil and the technological abuse of the land which could have been stopped.
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The philosophy that Gandhi followed was civil resistance/nonviolent resistance. His social and religious ideas with core drivers of his believes such as power of truth, showing compassion for others and practicing non-violence acts.
In his move for an independent India, he used his philosophy to teach people to work hard and persevere challenges to achieve goals of the nation by practicing equality without disparities such as those caused by religion.
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Gandhi philosophy and teachings were based on four pillars; truth, nonviolence, Sarvoday and Satyagraha. Being a Hindu, he saw all religions to be equal. He advocated for a philosophy of nonviolence through campaigns that called for changes in the Indian society, critics in educational forms and persuasions, civil disobedience and non-violent protests.
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