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One reason revolution spread across Eastern Europe in 1989
Gorbachev loosened Soviet control.
As a result of the Truman Doctrine, the U.S. Congress agreed to send hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to which two countries?
Greece and Turkey
Who said that "Perestroika is an urgent necessity"
Mikhail Gorbachev
One reason Western Europe made a rapid recovery from World War II
The United States provided massive economic aid.
One effect of the arms race
an ever-present threat of nuclear war
helped drive the tremendous growth of the U.S. economy after World War II
consumer spending
a primary cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union
economic problems
Winston Churchill used this as an image to describe the division of Europe
iron curtain
Soviets blocked these routes going into West Berlin in 1948 in order to force the West to leave Berlin.
land, rail, and water
Nations that refused to take sides in the rivalry between superpowers in the 1950s
nonaligned nations
The United States was alarmed by Soviet control of Eastern Europe at the end of World War II because
officials believed Soviet expansion would not stop at Eastern Europe.
The Cold War ended when
the Soviet Union collapsed.
The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 was based on
the belief that Iraq possessed chemical and biological weapons
The United States experienced a severe economic slowdown in the 1970s because of a dramatic increase in this.
the cost of energy
goal of the United States when it went to war in Korea
to contain Communist expansion