The Soviet Union and the satellite nations refused to take money offered in the Marshall Plan. The Marshall Plan was meant to help nations recover from World War II by providing money to stabilize the economy and rebuild infrastructure.
The Soviet Union knew that the United States was using this money as a means to form alliances. This is another reason why they refused to take it.
This helped lead to the idea of containment, as the US was trying to stop European nations they helped through the Marshall Plan from becoming communist.
It adresses the problem where one side would control the other sides of the government and have too much power
Lincoln was firm politically in proposing that slavery is morally wrong but he was not an abolitionist himself.
Explanation:
His views regarding the racial equality were always tending to be controversial and complicated. There had been a situation wherein Lincoln admitted that constitution mandated certain clauses for abolition but he did not know what exactly need to be done to abolish slavery from the current political system.
Lincoln seemed to be working with abolitionists but did not count himself to be totally responsible to abolish slavery. Only with the emancipation he could win over the black’s votes.
