No he just took over parts of Europe as his forces closed in onGermany after WW2 the countries that were unfortunate enough to be between Russia and Germany were sucked into the USSR, It is interesting to note that the war started over Poland becoming part of a German Dictatorship and finished with half of Europe belonging to a Russian dictatorship.
The threat of another war kept the US from stopping Stalin's efforts to take over eastern Europe.
The threat of another war kept the US from stopping Stalin's efforts to take over eastern Europe.
It was a meeting in Yalta in Eastern Europe in February 1945. The Big 3(Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin) meet to discuss what they would do with Germany and Europe after the war was over. It was decided that Stalin and the Soviet Union would over take Berlin, and have control of Eastern Europe. This lead to tensions because Stalin forced communism onto the Eastern European countries, and as we know the US was anti-communist.
During World War 2, Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Soviet Union.
yes
He did get his buffer zone, but it fell over the years
Stalin was interested in eastern Europe because he believed it was subject to the Soviet influence.
It was in 1920's.
Joseph Stalin's outcome was one of epic proportions. The USSR took over much of Europe and became a world power.
Stalin supported state capitalist governments in Eastern Europe. Communism has no government (or classes or money).
Stalin promised protection and to work with the USSR.
During World War II, Stalin viewed Churchill as a valuable ally against Germany, but an opponent of Soviet expansion. After the war was over, Churchill was Stalin's most vocal enemy, openly speaking against Stalin's takeover of Eastern Europe.