Eastern Bloc

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Eastern Bloc

  1. The Eastern Bloc was made out of the eight countries surrounding the USSR.
  2. The USSR managed to take over these eight countries in less than 2 years.
  3. This made it hard for enemy forces to attack the USSR from the west, as the invading troops would need to get through these countries to get to the USSR.
  4. The ‘Buffer Zone’ and ‘The Iron Curtain’ were other names for the Eastern Bloc.
  5. Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Romania, Albania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria were the eight countries which made up the Eastern Bloc.
  6. These countries were Communists.
  7. The main reason why these countries became communism was due to poverty.
  8. The USSR ruled the countries since 1945 to 1989 (over 40 years).
  9. When the Soviet Union broke up in 1989, these eight countries stopped being a communist country and into a capitalist country.
  10. These countries became part of the Soviet’s alliance, ‘NATO’

The Korean War

  1. The Korean War split Korea into two halves – The North and The South.
  2. The split between North and South was very close to the 38th Parallel, so it was nicknamed the 38th Parallel.
  3. The North side was Communist, which both USSR and China supported.
  4. The South side was Capitalist, which the USA supported.
  5. The North wanted to make the whole of Korea turn to Communism, so they prepared a war, which the USSR would supply weapons, and China would supply troops.
  6. North Korea’s leader was Kim IL Sung and the South Korean leader was Syngman Rhee.
  7. North Korea launched an attack, which took over most of South Korea. When the USA came in, they pushed North Korea back over the 38th Parallel, but instead of stopping, they pushed even further behind the line.
  8. Mao Tse Tung the leader of China feared that the USA would invade China, so he brought more troops in to help North Korea.
  9. China managed to push the USA back to the 38th Parallel.
  10. The Korean War lasted for three years, from September 1950 to July 1953.
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Fidel Castro

  1. He was born in 1926, into a middle class family. Cuba was poor at the time.
  2. He went to University in 1945 and started to read up on communism
  3. He decided to form a group to over-throw the capitalist leader. He launched an attack against the dictator in 1953, but unfortunately, it went wrong and he was sent to prison.
  4. He was soon released, and launched another attack. In 1959, the dictator fled and Castro took over.
  5. Castro kicked all of the American businesses out of Cuba, and ran the businesses themselves.
  6. He ...

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