How did widespread decolonization contribute to the Cold War?
A.
Newly independent governments wanted nothing to do with either the United States or the Soviet Union and so banded together to form NATO.
B.
Former colonial powers became angry at the United States–Soviet Union power plays for newly independent governments and united against them.
C.
Newly independent governments used the United States and the Soviet Union to gain the most economic aid possible without committing ideologically to either.
D.
The United States feared that the Soviet Union would entice newly independent governments to communism and countered with economic and military aid.