COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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The United States established a blockade of East Berlin.
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The United States worked to stop the spread of communism.
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The United States withdrew from its European alliances
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The United States declared war on the Soviet Union.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The “iron curtain” is the US worked to stop the spread of communism. As the US would assist countries fighting communism to prevent it from spreading.
Detailed explanation-2: -Which statement best explains how the United States responded to the presence of the “Iron Curtain.” The United States worked to stop the spread of communism.
Detailed explanation-3: -The United States feared specifically a domino effect, that the communism of the USSR would spread from one country to the next, destabilizing one nation which would, in turn, destabilize the next and allow for communist regimes to dominate the region.
Detailed explanation-4: -How did the Iron Curtain lead to the Cold War? The United States feared the power and influence the U.S.S.R. held over Eastern European countries at the end of World War II. As a result, the U.S. tried to keep these countries from embracing communism.
Detailed explanation-5: -Fanned by the fear of Communist expansion and the rapid deterioration of European economies in the winter of 1946–1947, Congress passed the Economic Cooperation Act in March 1948 and approved funding that would eventually rise to over $12 billion for the rebuilding of Western Europe.