The correct answer is D) Both countries provided economic support to other states in an effort to influence their governments.
The economic tactic that both the United States and the Soviet Union used after World War II ended was that both countries provided economic support to other states in an effort to influence their governments.
After the end of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union lived in constant tension in what was known as the Cold War years. The Soviet Union wanted to spread Communism and already controlled or influence Easter Europe countries such as Romania, East Germany, Poland, and Hungary, and imposed heavy influence on China, North Kore, Borth Vietnam and, Cuba. The United States made the impossible to stop the spread of Communism and helped countries such as South Korea during the Korean War and South Vietnam in the Vietnam War.