WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Cold War heats up around the world. The Cold War started in Europe. From 1945 to 1953, the USSR expanded its influence by creating the Eastern Bloc across states like Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. Stalin set up puppet communist governments that he could control.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The collapse of the Berlin Wall was the culminating point of the revolutionary changes sweeping East Central Europe in 1989. Throughout the Soviet bloc, reformers assumed power and ended over 40 years of dictatorial Communist rule. The reform movement that ended communism in East Central Europe began in Poland.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1917, the Bolshevik Party seized power during the Russian Revolution and in 1922 created the Soviet Union, the world’s first self-declared socialist state.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Korean and Vietnam Wars are often referred to as proxy wars because the US and the Soviet Union did not directly fight each other. Each backed opposing forces in conflicts in Korea and Vietnam. America’s involvement in Latin America mostly centered around Fidel Castro’s communist government of Cuba.