WORLD HISTORY

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: -Soviet takeover of control at the outset generally followed a process: a general coalition of left-wing, Anti-fascist forces; a reorganised ‘coalition’ in which the Communists would have the upper hand and neutralise those in other parties who were not willing to accept their supremacy; complete Communist domination.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1962 the Soviet Union began to secretly install missiles in Cuba to launch attacks on U.S. cities. The confrontation that followed, known as the Cuban missile crisis, brought the two superpowers to the brink of war before an agreement was reached to withdraw the missiles.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.