... the conference, Truman flatly refused Stalins request that the USSR should have trusteeship over certain former Italian colonies. He also refused to recognize the current governments of both Bulgaria and Romania due to violations of the Yalta declaration on Liberated Europe. Stalin likely found all this extremely confusing. It appeared as thought the Americans were insisting upon national self-determination for ... acquire from Germany, and Byrnes had showed himself to be surprisingly forthcoming. Subsequently, Byrnes informed Stalin that he was willing to discuss the issue of the diplo...

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... economic conflict with the United States and its allies, known as the Cold War. In the countries in which the influence of the Soviet Union was predominant, namely, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Yugoslavia, and East Germany, the politico-economic structure was gradually reorganized. Opposing political groups were isolated and then destroyed, large landholdings were expropriated, and (with the ... coordinate the economic activities of those states under Soviet control, Stalin in 1949 established the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA or COMECON), with Albania, Bul...

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... economic conflict with the United States and its allies, known as the Cold War. In the countries in which the influence of the Soviet Union was predominant, namely, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Yugoslavia, and East Germany, the politico-economic structure was gradually reorganized. Opposing political groups were isolated and then destroyed, large landholdings were expropriated, and (with the ... coordinate the economic activities of those states under Soviet control, Stalin in 1949 established the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA or COMECON), with Albania, Bul...

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... later referred as his 'naughty document', by dividing the Balkans into spheres of influence. According to this agreement, both Britain and Russia would have 90% dominance in Greece and Romania respectively; Russia would have predominance in Bulgaria with 75%; and in Hungary and Yugoslavia the influence of the two great powers was balanced, each having 50% share equally. Stalin scrawled ... Greece, Stalin indignantly agreed with Churchill's attempts, which gave the signal that the West should not have any right of questioning any actions that would be adopted in Bulgaria and Romania...

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... were harshly criticized in the United States. This was because, as events turned out, Stalin failed to keep his promise that free elections would be held in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. Instead, communist governments were established in all those countries, noncommunist political parties were suppressed, and genuinely democratic elections were never held. At the time of the Yalta Conference ... of influence. Churchill, in his percentage agreements with Stalin, had indicated the limits of British interest in Eastern Europe. However when the Big Three agreement ...

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... looking for a reliable government to run them, and economic aid to help the post-war rebuild; which the soviet union was quick to provide as many countries such as Yugoslovakia, Romania, Lithuania, and Bulgaria had already seceded to communistic ideals. (http://www.ushistory.org/us/52c.asp) l, military and economic assistance to any country under threat from communistic forces. It was ... ...

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... where Germans could expand and, therefore, create the superior race in order to dominate the entire world. Hitler tried to expand German territory to the eastern part of Europe (Ukraine, Romania). Some say that expansion to East represented Hitler's antipathy for the urban environment, and that supported the idea of a healthy place that he wanted for his population. Of course, there ... ...

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... so guilty about abandoning his ally. At Mussolini's insistence, the pact was not merely defensive, but offensive as well. More importantly, in Mussolini's eyes, Italy could now attack Turkey, Switzerland, Romania, Greece, and could even occupy the Balkans, all with the Germans backing them up. With these prospective lands to overtake, Mussolini wished to postpone the war for as long as ... ...

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... was a treaty between France and Poland (1921), promising assistance if either were attacked, as well as a link of France to the "Little Entente" (signed between Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia August 1920, Romania joined). This was to influence the decisions taken by the League of Nations as it was very difficult to consider each and every country's single interest and worries since there ... ...

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... its border with Austria in the summer, allowing East Germans to begin a stampede that set the stage for Nov. 9; Czechoslovakia's "Velvet Revolution"; the bloody end of Nicolae Ceausescu's reign in Romania, and, on Oct. 3, 1990, Germany's formal reunification. In June 1991, the Communist government in Albania fell, and by the end of the year, the Soviet Union itself followed. (Andrew Nagorskip ... ...

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... relations with any states that did so. The first departure from this policy occurred in 1967 when Willie Brandt, the then Foreign Minister for West Germany, established diplomatic relations with Romania and Yugoslavia, who both recognised the government in East Germany. Willie Brandt was later to become Chancellor at the head of a new government in 1969, and soon after his accession ... ...

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After World War II, Communism began to spread across several European countries, such as Poland, Romania and Hungary. In the West a strong sense of fear of this ideal quickly began to spread as well. When the Cold War broke out, every nation was involved. The most ... ...

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... formed to counter the threat from USSR. The dissolution of USSR resulted in the independence of the former Soviet Republics. The rest European countries viz Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, East Germany, Romania and Bulgaria came out of the influence of USSR and adopted their own independent policies. Consequently the Soviet-backed Warsaw Pact was disbanded in April 1991. These changes coupled with ... ...

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... this war that lasted for nearly five decades. It can be argued that Stalin's political incursions into Eastern Europe caused unnecessary conflict between Russia and the West. By 1948, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Albania and Yugoslavia all had Communist governments. The setting up of pro-communistic regimes in this region appeared to the West to be a direct outlash against them ... ...

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... five million men deployed to Europe to aid in the war. Great Britain, France, Russia, Belgium, Italy, the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Serbia, South Africa, India, Rhodesia, Portugal, Romania, Montenegro, Greece and Poland all faced off against the likes of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey. I, along with the rest of the world, hopes that we are never forced ... ...

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The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance of the Eastern European Soviet Block countries intended to organize against the perceived threat from the NATO alliance. The Eastern Block members were: Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Poland, the former USSR and the former Czechoslovakia. All the Communist countries of Eastern Europe except Yugoslavia were included. The treaty was drafted by Kkrushchev in 1955 ... ...

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... . The Germans agreed to surrender under President Wilson's 14 points to end the war. The terms Germany had to accept were the evacuation of occupied territories in Belgium, France, Russia, Romania and Serbia, and the return of Alsace-Lorraine to France. Also, the Fourteen Points called for the development of self-government for the peoples of Austria-Hungary and the Turkish ... ...

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