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How did Joseph Stalin expand his power?
Joseph Stalin expanded his power by using his secret police and the government to control society. He took control of farms and killed farmers who resisted so that he could control food supplies.
Name the statesman who was the champion of world Sovietism after World war II?
The statesman who championed world Sovietism after World War II was Joseph Stalin. As the leader of the Soviet Union, Stalin aimed to spread communism and expand Soviet influence globally. He supported the establishment of communist governments in Eastern Europe and promoted international socialist movements.
Soviet Union wanted to control Eastern European countries?
Yes. They wanted to expand the territory controlled by communisim and have a barrier between the USSR and Western Europe, after Hitler's invasion.
What was Josef Stalin's goal?
USSR Communist leader Josef (Joseph) Stalin mainly aimed to expand Communism. He felt that 'Communism was one country of the world'. During the Cold War he began taking over many Eastern European countries that were weak and if any opposed Communism they would be killed or arrested. Soon, he controlled Eastern Europe. then he wanted to drive further but since the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Aid came into the equation he couldn't expand Communism.
Why did Stalin feel compelled to create puppet states in Eastern Europe?
Stalin created puppet states in Eastern Europe to expand the power of the USSR. It also enabled the Soviet Union to take advantage of these nations' natural resources and their industries. The idea that he created the socalled Soviet bloc to protect the USSR from Western Europe and the US, is a convenient way to rationalize his method of imperialism. And, the idea that by controlling the nations of Eastern Europe, he prevented the creation of an anti-Soviet alliance that could become a threat to the USSR falls into the excuse for imperialism stated earlier. In terms of measuring the validity of the Soviet imperialism argument for Stalin's aggression is fairly easy. For all practical purposes, there is no evidence that the populations of Western Europe made any mass movements into Eastern Europe to be protected from Western imperialism. Quite the opposite, people in these puppet states risked their lives to escape from Eastern Europe, or stage revolutions, such as Hungary did in the mid 1950's.
Why didn't the Mongols take over Western Europe?
The Mongols were never able to expand to Western Europe, the farthest west they could get was Eastern Europe.
How did the Chinese promises to the Tibetan people resemble the Soviet Union's promises to the countries of Eastern Europe?
The Chinese promised autonomy to the Tibetans, but eventually, Chinese control tightened, and the Dalai Lama (religious leader of Tibet) fled to India. This is like the Soviet Union's promises to the countries of Eastern Europe because these promises were a ploy to expand communism.
What are Joseph Stalin's foreign policies?
Expand his dictatorship
According to Hilter's plan eastern Europe would become a living space for who?
Hitler's plan was to conquer 'living space' for Germans in Eastern Europe. He wanted Jews out from the Eastern Europe and he also wanted the Slav population reduced. NO ACTUALLY HE WANTED LIVING SPACE FOR THE ARYAN RACE.
When Germany began World War 2 in 1939 a secret agreement with the USSR allowed Soviet troops to?
occupy eastern Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and parts of Finland. The agreement, known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, effectively divided Eastern Europe between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, and it allowed the USSR to expand its influence and territorial control.
Where did Rome expand their control after the Punic wars?
Having gained ascendancy over the Western Mediterranean, the became increasingly embroiled in the affairs of the Eastern Mediterranean.
Why did the Soviet Union aggressively expand into Eastern Europe?
Under the terms of the Russo-German treaty in 1939, the Soviet Union was allowed to invade Poland from the east and to occupy and approximately half the country-Germans the other half. Later, the Soviet Union invaded and occupied all 3 Baltic countries: Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. After the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in June1941, the countries of eastern Europe became a huge battefield. By the end of the war in May, 1945, most of central and eastern Europe were under the control of the Russian army. There were to be free elections after the war in these countries, but the Soviet Union rigged the elections and forced out pro-democratic parties and leaders. By 1947, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Poland, Bulgaria and Albania were firmly in the control of the Soviet Union. World War II gave the Soviets a great opportunity to expand into the Balkans and eastern Europe and to have these puppet states become a huge buffer zone from future German threats!
