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Western countries focused on keeping communism only within countries that already had implemented it rather than trying to abolish it completely first.
All adult males were allowed to vote
China under Mao had two major attempts to industrialize and boost its economy in order to become a strong economic nation. Mao's policies though did not worked as planned at all, and they had the opposite effect, crumbling the economy instead of developing it. The planning of how the industrialization was supposed to happen, and the planning for the production of the raw materials for it, were totally misjudged and nothing turned out as projected.
Russia on the other hand had very old school industry, and it was modernizing very slowly. Despite having problems similar to those in China, still the industrialization was going much more smoothly. It was slow, step by step, not keeping up the pace of the Western World, but it was managing to develop nonetheless.
When Soviets launched the satellite sputnik the Americans immediately suffered one loss in the space race to the Russians .Becuase of the American defeat the American government blamed American education and a lot of funding was put into math and science to try to make up for the losses and continue the space race .also many Americans were terrified of sputnik because they were worried of weapons like inter continental ballistic missiles that could destroy America.
The correct answer in this case is that it lead to a new system of bartering controlled by merchants. Merchants during medieval times in Europe played an amazingly important role because they basically could control the flow of trade and how goods could be distributed in certain cities for example.
