The cold war - Stalin tightens his control

Eastern European countries = weak = needed to be rehabilitated = they made teritorial advances
They pushed people out and occupied spaces using USSR communist armies
Eastern European countries became soviet satellite = had own govt. but lived under communist rules
According to Yalta: democratic govt was supposed to be allowed but USSR still became communist
They have great territorial advances through eastern Europe. Stalin put into place communism and took out any communist opposition = west got Scared
The East
1. Felt Vulnerable = atomic bomb = needed to protect herself
2. Gaining territory = got resources = strained after war
3. Stalin wanted to create buffer zone = Germany
  1. Buffer Zone = neutral area used by one area to create barrier or separate
4. pattern of conquest = was to spread communism
THE WEST
1. Realised stalin was a dictator = Hugely alarmed
2. West didn't want another war
3. 1946 Church hill makes iron curtain specch
  1. Iron curtain split Europe into two
    1. West being individual , democratic liberated,
    2. East is Limited, communist. He says that allies must combat the situation

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