What Issue Led  to the Most Dramatic Confrontation Between the  Sovi

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Multiple Choice

What issue led  to the most dramatic confrontation between the  Sovi et Union and the United States during the post-World War II era?

• A)The United States introduced a new currency, the deutsche mark, into West Germany, thus financially separating East Germany from West Germany, to East Germany's detriment.
• B)Stalin attempted to get the Allies to leave West Berlin in 1948 by imposing a blockade that denied ground access to the city, and the Americans had to carry out a long-running airlift of supplies.
• C)The Soviet Union began in late 1945 to impose satellite governments throughout the countries of Eastern Europe.
• D)The Soviets accused, with reason, the Allies of refusing to honor wartime commitments to share West German resources with them, to serve as war reparations.
• E)The West chose to ignore earlier plans to hunt down Nazis and bring them to justice, choosing instead to build up German protections in hopes of keeping communism from spreading.

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