It left he nations with the choice to declare their independence.
Explanation:
Most of the nations of the eastern region had declared their independence from the mother state of USSR and its communist regimes right after the fall of the USSR.
This was done when they got the free choice to do so if they pleased and the majority of the states had simply opted out.
There was a sense of dissatisfaction among the people with that mode of governance and they had seen the developed of the Democratic countries and wanted it for them.
The states had thus chosen for democracy
do you mean peroygjostion
One of the main ways in which the United States attempted to strengthen its ties and influence with the nations of Latin America was by declaring that further attempts to colonize this area by Europeans would be met with resistance by the US--as embodied in the Monroe Doctrine.