The economic decision that made consumer goods so difficult to get in the Soviet Union until the late 1980s was: <span>The emphasis on heavy industry
During that period, Soviet Union focus its economic forces to produce various heavy equipment in order to win the Space Race against united states. Because of this, the smaller industries receive no subsidies from the government, causing the price of any imported goods became heavily inflated.</span>
The fact that Japan is a very small island nation has always made it hard for them to have enough domestic natural resources, which has historically meant that they have elected powerful leaders who have supported going to war with larger countries, such as China and Russia, in order to gain more territory.
Answer:
1. First hand experience of poverty.
2. The United States was not invaded nor thoroughly destroyed.
3. Economic help.
Explanation:
1. Marshall came from a settler family in Virginia. His father suffered financial difficulties when George entered the Military Institute.
2. Marshall, who served in the first and in the second world war, had a more than average knowledge of the European continent. For him, having seen the destruction of Europe after world war II, he was aware that it might be difficult to explain the needs of millions of Europeans to Americans save at home in a country that didn´t suffer (civilians) like other countries did.
3. As my (grand)parents in the Netherlands once told me, the most difficult years of the world war came when it ended. There was nothing to eat.
The Netherlands, like most devastated European countries, urgently needed economically help in order to build up what was utterly destroyed.
Tip: look for the movie Europe by Lars von Trier.
The answer is A: It included Western Europe, the Balkans, North Africa, and parts of the Middle East.
