Answer:to counterbalance the Western European alliance. to convince East Germany to join NATO. to respond to Stalin's direct threat to attack West Germany. to prevent communism from spreading to West Germany.
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Russia today or of antiquity?
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In the longer term, the rise of Turkish power in Anatolia eventually gave rise to the Ottoman Empire which rapidly conquered the former Byzantine heartland over the course of the 14th and 15th centuries, culminating in the Fall of Constantinople to the army of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror in 1453.
