POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
THE DESCENT OF THE IRON CURTAIN
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -By war’s end the Soviet armed forces numbered 11, 365, 000 officers and men. Demobilization, however, started toward the end of 1945, and in a few years the armed forces fell to fewer than 3, 000, 000 troops.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Soviet Union dominated Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. After World War II, it formed the Warsaw Pact, a military alliance of European communist states meant to counter NATO.
Detailed explanation-3: -By 1950, the Eastern Bloc consisted of many Eastern European countries which were under the influence of the USSR. These included Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Ukraine.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Soviet Union Occupies Eastern Europe The Soviet Union was determined to establish governments in Eastern Europe who were friendly to the Soviet Union. While the war was still taking place, Soviet occupation troops assisted local communists in putting Communist dictatorships in Romania and Bulgaria in power.