The Iranian hostage crisis had played a huge part in setting the mood for foreign contact between the United States and many other Middle Eastern nations into the 00s, however there were many other events that shaped U.S. involvement in the Middle East. ... That same year many communist nations in Eastern Europe began to fall and the Berlin wall that divided East and West Germany was torn down. ...

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