WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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to debate the proper course of socialism
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to lead Eastern Europe to economic prosperity
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to create a protective buffer zone of friendly governments
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to improve education and protect refugees
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Detailed explanation-1: -After World War Two a Cold War developed between the capitalist Western countries and the Communist countries of the Eastern Bloc . Soviet leader Joseph Stalin wanted a buffer zone of friendly Communist countries to protect the USSR from further attack in the future.
Detailed explanation-2: -Stalin, on the other hand, wanted Soviet “sphere of influence” in Central and Eastern Europe, starting with Poland, in order to provide the Soviet Union with a geopolitical buffer zone between it and the western capitalist world.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Collectivization and Industrialization. In November 1927, Joseph Stalin launched his “revolution from above” by setting two extraordinary goals for Soviet domestic policy: rapid industrialization and collectivization of agriculture.
Detailed explanation-5: -Stalin’s major goals was to defeat Hitler and spread communism to the people.