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What was the main reason Joseph Stalin created collective farms?

Farmland could be turned into industrial land.

Collective farms would create many new jobs.

Soviet farms were old-fashioned and inefficient.

Wasteful crop surpluses would be eliminated.

Intercontinental ballistic missiles made it possible for a country possessing them to

strike targets far away.

launch satellites into space.

shoot down enemy airplanes.

detect enemy troops at night.

Which of these statements best explains this graph?

US defense spending was one-half that of the Soviet Union'’s from 1946 to 1968.

US defense spending was affected by domestic needs during these years, not world events.

US defense spending declined after World War II but increased as the Cold War heated up.

US defense spending was at its highest point in the years immediately following World War II.

What happened to US defense spending from 1946 to 1948?

It stayed about the same.

It went up by about $30,000 million.

It dropped by approximately $40,000 million.

It dropped by approximately $30,000 million.

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