WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -These countries contained, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, East Germany, Finland, Yugoslavia. The Soviet Union wanted to have these nations to act as boundaries as no Western European country could attack Soviet without getting through these countries. They were just a buffer zone from attacks.

Detailed explanation-2: -Poland and other states between Germany and the Soviet Union have sometimes been described as buffer states, both as non-communist states before World War II and later as socialist states of the Eastern Bloc.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Europan countries which were considered to be “behind the Iron Curtain” included: Poland, Estearn Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania and the Soviet Union.

Detailed explanation-4: -On either side of the Iron Curtain, states developed their own international military alliances, namely the Warsaw Pact and NATO. Physically, the Iron Curtain took the form of border defenses between the countries of Europe in the middle of the continent, most notably the Berlin Wall.