COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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They wanted a source of a new technology and skilled labor
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They wanted to spread the Soviet Union faith
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They wanted to extend communist power
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the countries were members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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Detailed explanation-1: -After World War Two a Cold War developed between the capitalist Western countries and the Communist countries of the Eastern Bloc . Soviet leader Joseph Stalin wanted a buffer zone of friendly Communist countries to protect the USSR from further attack in the future.
Detailed explanation-2: -Stalin wanted Eastern Europe under his thumb both as a defense buffer to protect the Soviet motherland and to expand socialism, the communist economic system. He believed that “scientific laws” of history determined that the world would eventually become socialist.
Detailed explanation-3: -At the end of World War II, communism appealed to many Europeans because: it seemed to be an effective way to build powerful, egalitarian modern states. What was the goal of the Marshall Plan? imit the appeal of communism in western Europe by providing grants for reconstruction to democratic governments.
Detailed explanation-4: -After World War II, the Soviet Union extended its control into Eastern Europe. It took over the governments in Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany, Poland, Romania and Yugoslavia.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Iron Curtain described hard borders between Eastern Europe and the rest of the continent during the Cold War. These borders were formed in the years after World War II, as Soviet-controlled regimes in the East sought to tighten control and prevent both emigration and infiltration.