There are still 10,000 nuclear weapons located in different countries around the world.
He wanted to aid Eastern Europe and increase Soviet influence and prevent Eastern European countries from taking Marshall Plan money.
Italy was in the US sphere of influence, while Hungary was in the Soviet sphere of influence. The Marshall Plan included aid for the democratic governments of Western Europe, not the communist-controlled governments of Eastern Europe.
it gave the Soviets proof we were spying on them
Answer this question… The United States and the Soviet Union used the programs to build up their European alliances.
After WWII, the Soviet Union turned its attention to rebuilding its own economy and aiding in post-war reconstruction in Eastern European Soviet satellite states. It also assisted the Chinese communist party and increasingly became involved in expanding its influence to other parts of the world. The Soviet Union's growing influence and the spread of communism led to the Cold War between it and the U.S.
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sputnic
Homophobia
Containment was the foreign policy meant to resist the expansion of the Soviet Union. This policy was implemented by the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Soviet influence diminished in Western Europe
Roy D. Laird has written: 'A Soviet lexicon' -- subject(s): Politics and government, Terminology 'Soviet agricultural and peasant affairs' 'The Soviet paradigm' -- subject(s): Politics and government
he argued that the soviet union was trying to defeat capitalism and expand the soviet sphere of influence
It depends on the period you are asking about. In the interwar years the main fear was of subversion, not of war with the Soviet Union. In the Cold War the fear of actual war was added. I don't think the existence of the Soviet Union had any real influence on social policy in Western Europe. After WWII there was a swing to the Left in many West European countries, and most of them increased welfare provision. The reasons for this were the result of internal politics.
The Iron Curtain -BAK
The Former Soviet Union
He wanted to aid Eastern Europe and increase Soviet influence and prevent Eastern European countries from taking Marshall Plan money.
West Berlin was an outpost of Western European and American influence deep in Soviet-controlled territory.