USA HISTORY

THE COLD WAR 1950 1973

THE COLD WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
To create a buffer zone against future invasions, the Soviet Union:
A
Built the Berlin Wall
B
Cuban Missile Crisis
C
Established satellite states in Eastern Europe
D
Formed NATO
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Europe. Switzerland has been a buffer state between Italy, Austria, France, Germany, and other state powers in medieval and modern Europe.

Detailed explanation-2: -Although in 1945 the Communist world was limited to the Soviet Union, it rapidly spread to Central and Eastern Europe, forming a protective buffer zone for the USSR. Communist propaganda was greatly helped by the presence of the Soviet army in the countries that it had liberated in Central and Eastern Europe.

Detailed explanation-3: -Soviet leader Joseph Stalin wanted a buffer zone of friendly Communist countries to protect the USSR from further attack in the future.

Detailed explanation-4: -Poland as well as Hungary, Romania and Czechoslovakia were more or less brutally forced into the Soviet embrace.

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