Containment was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. A component of the Cold War, this policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge its communist sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, and Vietnam.
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Because USSR was a mass mobilizing totalitarian dictatorship, which occupied most of Eastern Europe, killed and arrested political opposition and even ethnicities seen as a threat to Kremlin, and ran large and influental communist groups/parties in all the western democracies with an ultimate intent to influence
Geography and climate determined what kinds of crops could be grown, leading to different structures for economies and settlements.
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