Soviet Expansion

• • After WW2, USSR turned Eastern European countries into satellite states for buffer zone
  • USA saw this as evidence that USSR wanted to spread communism
  • US-USSR relations worsened
• East Germany:

  • communist in 1945
  • Part of Soviet zone
• Czechoslovakia:

  • Communist in 1948
  • Removal of non-communist parties
• Hungary:

  • Communist in 1948
  • Forceful input by removal of non-communist opponents
• Poland:

  • Rebellion - Warsaw Uprising
  • USSR invaded Poland and input communist government
  • Communist in 1947
• Romania & Bulgaria:

  • USSR abolished monarchy
  • Communist government took out opponents
  • Romania communist in 1945
  • Bulgaria communist in 1946
• Yugoslavia:

  • Communist independently in 1945
  • Was not satellite state
  • Only communist state not behind Iron Curtain
• Albania:

  • Communist in 1945
  • Communist government took power at end of WW2