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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