True. A number of soldiers within the Continental Army, and especially Washington's during the Valley Forge incident would desert due to the poor conditions the army and campaign were in.
Shakespeare's plays are all about questioning authority: kings are deposed; bad people (Iago) triump over good ones (Cassio); your parents don't always know best (the behaviour of the parents in Romeo and Juliet is the cause of all the trouble).
In the Middle Ages people had a general sense that God was in his heaven, and all was right with the world. In the Renaissance people started to ask if that was true.
Shakespeare is always asking difficult questions, which is a very Renaissance thing to do. And he never makes any direct reference to Christian faith in any of his plays:- religious doubt was also a very Renaissance characteristic.
One of the most effective tools utilized by management was the introduction of scabs or replacement works. The purpose of any strikes is to destabilize the work regimen in a plant or factory to obtain concessions from management. Scabs disrupt this process by crossing picket lines and continuing the work process. In this way, the strike is essentially undermined. Moreover, the striking workers were not allowed to return and thus forfeited their jobs.
There were several events that led up to the creation of NASA, but the biggest was the space race with Russia, which was especially heightened after Sputnik.