The Marshall Plan helped the West recover faster. under pressure from stalin, eastern europe countries refused aid from the united states
The United States made the CIA and sent a bunch of soldiers to reinforce the borders. The CIA killed KGB agents and the military stopped an invasion.
The Eastern Front of the European Theater.
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.
Because Stalin was an imperialist who wanted to extend the borders of the USSR. At the end of WWII the other major world powers, the US and the UK were very weary of waging war by that time, and the UK was broke, and so when they were faced with having to fight the fearsome might of the Soviet army they decided to do absolutely nothing to oppose the illegal Soviet invasions of the various Eastern European countries. The Iron Curtain was born and it defined European politics for generations to come.
Russian troops had advanced as far as the Elbe.
The Marshall Plan helped the West recover faster. under pressure from stalin, eastern europe countries refused aid from the united states
The United States made the CIA and sent a bunch of soldiers to reinforce the borders. The CIA killed KGB agents and the military stopped an invasion.
The Eastern Front of the European Theater.
He prevented the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union and established Soviet control over the nations of eastern Europe.
the Cold War stated when Stalin broke the Yalta agreement by forcing communism upon Eastern European Nations.
The Eastern Nations were kept by Stalin and the USSR. They became the Eastern Bloc. They tried to get free of communism but it did not work. Yugoslavia was able to get free of USSR control. In the 1990s they were finally freed of USSR control and able to become self ruling nations with viable economies. Prior to the final end of the war many people did get out of those eastern nations and make it to the Allied Forces to get relocated to different nations.
Stalin supported state capitalist governments in Eastern Europe. Communism has no government (or classes or money).
Under pressure from Stalin, Eastern European countries refused aid from the United States.
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.
Stalin's objective was to have control of most/half of eastern Europe
Stalin's objective was to have control of most/half of eastern Europe