COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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Western Europeans feared that Nazism would be rekindled in Eastern Europe.
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The Soviet Union had military forces in Eastern Europe as a result of World War II.
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The democracies of Western Europe needed greater security.
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Eastern Europeans accepted the doctrine of Pan-Slavism.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which was a major reason for the success of Soviet domination in Eastern Europe after World War II? Western Europeans feared that Nazism would be rekindled in Eastern Europe. The Soviet Union had military forces in Eastern Europe as a result of World War II. The democracies of Western Europe needed greater security.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Stalin wanted to spread Communism into Eastern Europe. He also wanted to create a buffer zone as a defense against Germany. Stalin was always worried about Germany’s military power. Russia has had a history of being attacked from the east, and at the end of World War II Russian soldiers forced Germany out of the east.
Detailed explanation-4: -Eastern Germany was at first a Soviet military occupation zone, but soon became the German Democratic Republic under German communist party rule. Stalin wanted Eastern Europe under his thumb both as a defense buffer to protect the Soviet motherland and to expand socialism, the communist economic system.
Detailed explanation-5: -It had a complex communication network vast energy resources including oil iron and steel machinery production and a transport sector that connected its remotest areas with efficiency. 6. It had a domestic consumer industry that produced everything from pins to cars to make themselves self-dependent.