WORLD WAR II
DECOLONIZATION PHASE
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Question
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Eastern Europe received aid from the United States and became a part of NATO
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Western European countries became Soviet Satellites
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Eastern Europe countries started a war with the Soviet Union. Western European countries came to the aid of Eastern Europe
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Western Europe received aid from the United States and Eastern Europe came under communist influence
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Detailed explanation-1: -Western Europe and Asia were rebuilt through the American Marshall Plan, whereas Central and Eastern Europe fell under the Soviet sphere of influence and eventually behind an “Iron Curtain". Europe was divided into a US-led Western Bloc and a USSR-led Eastern Bloc.
Detailed explanation-2: -After World War II, local communist parties came to power in Eastern Europe. They became the Soviet Union’s satellite states, implementing five-year plans with a focus on heavy industry instead of consumer items. Agriculture was controlled by the state and noncommunist parties were eliminated.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Marshall Plan had two primary purposes: to rebuild Europe after the devastation caused by World War II and to prevent the Soviet Union, the United States’ main postwar rival, from spreading its communist ideology and influence in Western Europe.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.