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nopoly of the atomic bomb) to the growing evidence that the Soviet Union intended to throw its new found military weight around outside its own borders. The United States foresaw the development after the war in Europe of a liberal political and economic order. In the view of many officials in Washington, two of what they regarded as the most objectionable features of the Soviet government, "arbitrary rule and ideological militancy," were being exported to Eastern Europe by force (Gaddis 34). Former Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain expressed the growing concerns of many in the West wh

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