WORLD HISTORY

COLD WAR ERA

IMPACT OF COLD WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Eastern European countries that became communist after WWII were under the influence of the USSR. They also served as a buffer zone from democratic, capitalist nations. What were these countries called?
A
Puppet States
B
Imperial States
C
Satellite States
D
Controlled States
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Soviet Union was determined to have a buffer zone between its borders and Western Europe. It set up pro-communist regimes in Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Albania, and eventually in East Germany.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Soviet Union Occupies Eastern Europe At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union occupied Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Poland and eastern Germany.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Nazis and the Soviet Union had wiped out the pre-war democratic leadership. National communist parties moved quickly to fill the political vacuum. The communists promised the people of Eastern Europe a new era of equality and economic plenty under a socialist system.

Detailed explanation-4: -Territorially enlarged, the USSR came out of the war with an aura of prestige from having fought Hitler’s Germany. 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.

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