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How did the wood block printing affect Europe?
Ideas could be spread around the world and after books were printed, people could learn how to read. -Susan Kurihara
Who did adriaen block sail for?
Adriaen Block sailed for the Dutch.
Different style of letters?
In block style letters everything lines up to the left of the margin. In a modified block style everything lines up at the left except the address which appears by the right margin.
What place did adriaen block explore?
Adriaen Block, from Amsterdam, explored the mid-Atlantic region near Rhode Island during four voyages between 1611 - 14. Block Island is named after him.
Block printing originated in which country?
China
Term for the barrier that Stalin erected to block off soviet-dominated nations of eastern Europe from the west?
"Iron Curtain"
What effects of soviet leader Joseph Stalin refused free elections in Eastern Europe and set up satellite nations on US?
The effects of the Soviet leader Josheph Stalin, who refused free elections in Eastern Europe was the Truman administration decided they will establish a policy of containment to block Stain from expanding.
What actions did Stalin have in the 1920s and 1930s?
Stalin formed the eastern block by taking over many countries and cities and making them communist. He is also responsible for the great purge.
How did Stalin treat the eastern block countries of Poland Hungary and chzechoslovakia?
terribly he murded millions and led them to starvation :(
What was the name given to the nations in Eastern Europe that were controlled by the Soviet Union?
The Warsaw Pact was eastern Europe's response to NATO
Who came up with the idea of the iron curtain?
stalin wanted to block people from going to western europe so he made the iron curtain to block them.
What did Stalin gain from Yalta conference?
Basically he gained the Eastern block countries that Russia dominated for 60 years before the Soviet Union fell in 1989.
Who led the Soviets to block west Berlin?
Stalin
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).
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.
Which year is known as the year of democracy in eastern europe?
1989, thr round table and first free elections in Poland and the Berlin wall collapse in NRD. But the rest of Eastern block like 1991 the Soviet Union's dissolution.
Did nuclear weapons influence the creation of NATO?
NATO was primarily formed because the "Eastern Block" had about 10 times as many conventional divisions on active status as Europe did at the time.
