WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

THE COLD WAR ERA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which country was the leading communist nation during the Cold War?
A
France
B
Soviet Union
C
North Korea
D
Germany
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The Eastern Bloc was led by the Soviet Union and its Communist Party, which had an influence across the Second World and was also tied to a network of authoritarian states. The Soviet Union had a command economy and installed similarly totalitarian regimes in its satellite states.

Detailed explanation-3: -The United Socialist Soviet Republic, or U.S.S.R., was made up of 15 republics: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.

Detailed explanation-4: -From its creation, the government in the Soviet Union was based on the one-party rule of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

Detailed explanation-5: -People’s Socialist Republic of Albania (1946–1968) People’s Republic of Bulgaria (1946–1990) Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (1948–1990) German Democratic Republic (1949–1990) Hungarian People’s Republic (1949–1989) Polish People’s Republic (1947–1989) Socialist Republic of Romania (1947–1965)

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