Before the USS Maine exploded, the United States was trying to expand as a world power. Thus, many Americans blamed Spain for the explosion of the USS Maine because it gave them a reason to declare war on Spain and take control of Spanish territory in the Pacific and Caribbean.
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I believe the answer would be False.
The “Iron Curtain” is a term indicating the imaginary boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War ll in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
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