3. The blockade of West Berlin in 1948 and putting down rebellions in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968 showed that the Soviet Union...
wanted to join NATO
-Jused economic sanctions (punishments) to achieve its goals
was willing to use force in situations that challenged its power
hoped to improve its economy through trade

monopolies  came to the united states with the colonial administration. the large-scale public works needed to make the new world hospitable to old world immigrants required large companies to carry them out. these companies were granted exclusive contracts for these works by the colonial administrators. even after the american revolution, many of these colonial holdovers still functioned due to the contracts and land

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answer; (b) asia;

i'm not certain but i'm pretty sure it was spanish and portuguese america.