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Why did Josef Stalin encourage the Western Allies to invade Western Europe as soon as possible?
At the time, Nazi Germany was pressing hard against the Soviet Union on the USSR's west. It would not be unreasonable to believe that Stalin wanted the Allies to invade Western Europe as a way of drawing off German troops, etc.
What was one of Stalin's major goals in eastern Europe after World War 2?
To create a protective buffer zone of friendly governments.
Who came up with the idea of the iron curtain?
stalin wanted to block people from going to western europe so he made the iron curtain to block them.
Why Stalin wanted to dominate Europe after?
Stalin wanted to dominate Europe after World War II to have a secure border for Russia. Another factor that came into play was the fact that Stalin felt that communism was the perfect form of government, and wanted to control the rest of the world through communism.
What were the goals of Stalin and the western leaders about the future of Germany?
Stalin was a dictator and his style of economics relied on state control in order to loot as much as possible from where ever his group had might. The western leaders were aware that Germany by its nature and position in Europe was simply going to rebuild and once again assume an important role in western Europe. the western leaders wanted the future of Germany to be non threatening and beneficial to themselves and to Germany.
Why did Franklin D. Roosevelt say Germany should take priority?
Stalin has been banging on about the need for a second front in Europe and the Brits and Americans wanted to ensure Western Europe didnt get liberated by the Russkies.
What did the allied leaders at the casablanca conference want?
They wanted an agreement on when and how to invade Europe.
Why did the Nazis try to invade England?
Because they wanted to control all of Europe.
What are the us and soviet aims in Europe that conflicted?
At the end of World War 2, The Western Nations of the allied forces wanted all of the European nations to be freed and allowed to be self ruling AND democratic. Democracy hating Dictator Stalin was not going to do that with the nations he took from the Nazi Germans. The continual conflict over this matter between Stalin and FDR and Churchill ended up in a stale mate. Stalin got his nations to keep under communist Soviet rule and the other half of Europe the western allies liberated were allowed to be free and democratic. This sparked The 50 year Cold War.
Was their a good side to Stalin?
He was one of the Axis powers. He made a treaty with Hitler, which Hitler broke when he invaded Russia. The three allies in the Axis in WII were Mussolini (Italy), Stalin (Soviet Union) and Hitler (Germany).
What were Stalin's plans for Eastern Europe in the post war period?
Stalin's goals in eastern Europe were territorial control and a reconstruction of the nation. He wanted to keep the majority of the power and did so try by utilizing fear as his major device on the people.
Joseph Stalin wanted fighting on the Western front to begin in order to .?
remove German pressure in russia
