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How did the NATO and Warsaw Pact effect on Soviet defense spending?
It posed a threat to Soviet military supremacy. With this combined threat the soviet government was forced to expand their own military force to keep pace with the combined powers of the NATO pact. This lead to huge portions of Russia's GDP being poured into military expense. This later crippled them when their purchases wore out and broke down. Now Russia's military force is but a fraction of its Soviet pinnacle.
Why did the Soviet Union view the formation of a west German state and nafo as a threat?
In the eyes of the government of the Soviet Union, every nation that it couldn't influence or conquer was a threat. In fact the Soviet Union was a very real threat to every non-communist nation on the planet, and a real threat to Communist China.
How successful had the Soviet Union been by 1985 and why?
the soviet union had a large portion of the earth in communism and formed a strong and weak alliance with china, and seized communism in Cuba near the U.S. and had a strong military and had many nukes as a threat to the world and was feared.
How did US leaders respond to the threat of the Soviet expansion in Europe?
the answer is containment,which was simply not to have any battles with the soviet union but to simply stop them from enpanding and just stay at their borders stoping them were ever they found a gap through the defences of the u.s
How does terrorism work?
Terrorism works by using violence or the threat of violence to attain goals that are political, religious, or ideological in state.
