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Q: Why were communist governments established in most nations of eastern Europe so quickly after World War 2?
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Which post-war action by the Soviet Union did the US see as a direct violation of the Yalta Agreement?

The Soviet Union established communist governments in Eastern European nations.


How did communist nations compare in lifesytle to western democracies?

Generally speaking, the non-communist nations of Western Europe were doing well in comparison to nations where Stalin had established communist governments in much of Eastern Europe. The free market policies of the West were yielding better economic growth then the centrally planned economies of Eastern Europe. The US helped to jump start the economies of Western Europe through the Marshall Plan.


Two Eastern European nations that set up their own communist governments after World War 2?

Albania and Yugoslavia


Which eastern European nations overthrew communist government in 1989?

There can be no such thing as a Communist government, as Communism does away with governments, classes and money. The societies in eastern Europe were state capitalist.


What nations had communism as their established form of government?

The former USSR, headed by Russia, were communist countries. Most of the outlying territories were taken by force and unwillingly converted to communist governments.


Communist governments surrendered one-party control in 1989 and called for free elections in all of the nations of Eastern Europe EXCEPT?

Yugoslavia


Which were the two most populous communist nations in Eastern Europe by 1950?

The two most populous Eastern European communist nations in 1950 were the Soviet Union and Poland.The two most populated Eastern European communist nations in the 1950s were the Soviet Union and Poland.


What nations did not overthrow their communist governments in a non-violent way?

ukraine


How did the Soviet plans for Eastern Europe differ from the Western Allies?

At the conclusion of WW 2, the Western allies sought democratic governments for Eastern Europe and basically for all of Europe. The Soviets under Joseph Stalin had other ideas. Their armies essentially occupied the Eastern nations where they had driven out the Nazi armies. The Soviets had an expansionist ideology and installed communist governments in the nations of Eastern Europe. This included East Germany.


What Eastern European nations were under communist control?

The Communist nations of Eastern Europe in the Warsaw Pact were: Russia, Poland, East Germany (DDR), Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria.Additionally, Yugoslavia and Albania were Eastern European countries with Communist governments that were not in league with Moscow. (Yugoslavia helped to form the Non-Aligned Movement and actively sought good relations with both Western and Eastern Europe. Meanwhile, Albania took the Chinese side in the Sino-Soviet split and broke off strong relations with Moscow.)


What was the name of the alliance established by european communist nations in response to?

the warsaw pact


How did European nations especially the east react to the Soviet Union collapsing?

European nations in the western part of Europe and in the eastern part of Europe, for the most part were glad to see the menace of the USSR dissolve. The previously communist nations were glad to be free of the USSR and in the western nations they were happy that their eastern neighbors would be free and create governments that respected the civil rights that were denied to them by the USSR.