The iron heel of Nazi Germany was lifted from that half of the continent, and the iron heel of Communist Russia came down upon it.. ..…

little later, between 1921 and 1923, Hoover's relief apparatus organized massive program of food assistance in the interior of Communist Russia, where the worst famine Europe since Middle Ages was raging. ..…

Many elements contributed to the growing danger: A return of American isolationism, the war debt owed to the U.S. by European allies, the crushing of “Prussian militarism” that led to the birth of communist Russia and the fascism that took hold of Italy in the early 1920s. . . ..…