... side are the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and its Communists allies, often referred to as the Eastern bloc, which by the mid 1950's included East Germany, Albania, Hungary, Poland Romania, China, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Bulgaria. On the other side is the United States along with its democratic allies, including Canada, France, West Germany, the Philippines, Japan, Great Britain, and many ... ...

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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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... their support in the war against Japan. To the surprise of Roosevelt and Churchill, Josef Stalin failed to keep his promises. He quickly prevented popular elections in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria by assigning permanent Communist governments to each and suppressing all democratic supporters. The response against Stalin was little, for his army extended across Eastern Europe and controlled the ... ...

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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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... with their foreign minister. Truman was impatient with talk and compromise concerning the number of non-Communists in the governments of those nations occupied by the Soviet Union. He called Romania and Bulgaria police states, and in a speech on October 27, 1945, he announced that the United States would recognize no government imposed upon any nation by the force of any ... ...

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... countries in Western Europe and in Latin America. They supported a democratic government. The Soviet Union led the eastern bloc and it included Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. This bloc supported a communist government. No actual fighting took place between these two groups. This is why the war was called the "Cold" war. Wars that include combat are considered ... ...

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