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Sentence Practice 1

1 .       At the end of World War II, much of Eastern Europe came under Soviet control (except for Yugoslavia, which retained its ____ 



2 .       By forming the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ____ the Allies hoped to protect western Europe from aggression. 



3 .       The United Nations intervened in the civil war in Korea in 1950 (between the Soviet-supported North and the U.S.-supported ____ 



4 .       According to one expert (Catherine Mahoney, ____ Khrushchev did more to instill the fear of communism in American school children than did Stalin. 



5 .       Khrushchev's threat to the U.S. ("We will bury you") was countered by Eisenhower's promise ("Communism will never ____ 



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