During the 1800s, thousands of settlers traveled west in search of new land and opportunities. Many families traveled in wagons. They followed overland trails across the continent. These trails were often dangerous and difficult to travel on. For settlers to reach the California coast they had to cross the Rocky Mountain chain.The settlers had to cross the Rocky Mountains to reach Oregon's Pacific Coast.
They wanted to show that they had control over the territory where they set up blockades that isolated the West as act of strength on their part.
Answer:
Gorbachev's decision to allow elections with a multi-party system
Explanation:
The establishment and control of the Soviet satellite states
This empire included Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and East Germany. Each had a Communist government. In the West they were called satellites because they clung closely to the Soviet Union like satellites round a planet.
several causes that led to the outbreak of the Cold War, including: tensions between the two nations at the end of World War II, the ideological conflict between both the United States and the Soviet Union, the emergence of nuclear weapons,.
Gorbachev's decision to allow elections with a multi-party system and create a presidency for the Soviet Union began a slow process of democratization that eventually destabilized Communist control and contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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