Which of the Following Helped Foster the Establishment of Communist

question 42

Multiple Choice

Which of the following helped foster the establishment of communist states in Eastern Europe after 1945?

• A) public revulsion against the failure of the Western democracies to stop Hitler, resulting in the defeat of their allies at the polls
• B) Soviet diplomatic pressure, political infiltration, and military power
• C) a massive infusion of Soviet economic and technical aid, hastening the rebuilding process
• D) persistent ethnic conflict, exacerbated by the earlier Nazi occupation
• E) Soviet propaganda that showed the superiority of the socialist vision of the future over that of the capitalist West

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