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Who are Laos' allies?
Laos maintained close ties with the former Soviet Union and its eastern bloc allies.
Which cold war group was led by the soviet union?
Eastern Bloc
What type of economy recently collapsed in the communist bloc countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union?
command economy
The iron curtain divided the world into?
The iron curtain divided the world into the eastern and western bloc.
What was the common in eastern bloc nations?
Controlled economies were common in eastern bloc countries.
Why did east Germans not attempt escape from other eastern European countries?
Many did in fact escape via other other East European countries, but it wasn't that easy, as contact between the entire Eastern Bloc and the West was controlled.
What are eastern bloc satelites?
Any communist country besides the Soviet Union was considered an "eastern bloc satellite nation."
What was the soviet eastern bloc?
A group of communistic countries, under the rule of the Soviet Union, that were located in Europe and blocked the Soviet Union from European attacks.
The term Eastern Europe was used to descibe European countries that were democratic and closely tied to the Soviet Union?
More or less, one what you ask is the Eastern Block, but Eastern Europe is not the same (Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia were part of Soviet bloc but they are in Central Europe never Eastern one.) Eastern countries use Cyrillic-based alphabet and used to be related with Byzantine-Russian culture when Western/Central countries use Latin-based alphabet and were more related with Roman culture.
Is the US a good example of a developing nation?
The US has already developed. Many of the emerging former Communist Bloc nations of Eastern Europe could be considered developing.
Which best describes the difference between Western and Eastern Europe throughout the Cold War?
Notice that Eastern Europe IS NOT the same as Eastern Block, i.e. Poland, Czech, Slovakia, Hungary were part of Eastern Bloc (as communistic states) but have never been in Eastern Europe (but central one or in western cultural circle). SO Eastern Bloc: poverty, communism, lack of personal freedom, highly extended health care and education system, central planned economy (inefficient), subjection to USSR (obligatory under the thread of military intervention) Western Europe: Richness, real democracy, freedom of speech and traveling, lower social expenses, capitalism, subjection to USA (freely).
Why did the us canade and most western European countries form the north Atlantic treaty organization?
To establish a defence alliance against the Eastern Bloc countries.
