Generally speaking, the name for the informal councils, like town meetings, where workers, farmers, and soldiers came together was the Duma, although these were implemented by the Czar.
The idea of mutually assured destruction was a result of political and military tensions between the US and USSR. Both of these countries built up military technologies that were capable of killing millions of citizens in just a few minutes. Both countries wanted to be able to inflict a severe amount of damage on the other in case of an attack.
This is why the phenomenon of mutually assured destruction was created, as neither country wanted to unprepared if war was to break out between these two countries.
General George Washington learns that Lt. Cornwallis's army is camped very near Yorktown, Virginia. He then talked to the French and moved near there. The causes were the French-American siege, the support of the French Navy, and other advantages the French and Americans got from each other
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