WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Stalin led the USSR to victory over Nazi Germany and oversaw the establishment of hardline communist regimes in postwar Central and Eastern Europe. The Soviet Union dominated Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War.

Detailed explanation-2: -By the summer of 1990, all of the former communist regimes of Eastern Europe were replaced by democratically elected governments. In Poland, Hungary, East Germany and Czechoslovakia, newly formed center-right parties took power for the first time since the end of World War II.

Detailed explanation-3: -Eastern bloc, group of eastern European countries that were aligned militarily, politically, economically, and culturally with the Soviet Union approximately from 1945 to 1990. Members included Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia.

Detailed explanation-4: -The government would own and control all communication and transportation. The government would own and control all education. The government would own and control factories and agriculture. Farming and regional planning would be run by the government.