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Iraq received massive financial support from the Gulf States, above all from Saudi Arabia, and billions in loans from Washington – though these, since the Iraqis were now obliged to import their wheat from the US, had the effect of boosting the American economy
States involvement in Vietnam—centered in the city so long defended by the American military, West Berlin. The Free University, established with Washington’s support in the midst of the 1948 Berlin blockade, had become a beehive of revolutionary activity, while America House, created to encourage cultural contacts with the United States, was now the regular target of hostile demonstrations, often physical attacks. The
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
Czechoslovakia. Brezhnev had ordered the invasion out of a sense of vulnerability—the fear that the “Prague spring” reforms could spread—but the intervention
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
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