HIS 200- Module 6 Discussion

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For your initial post, choose one of the following Eastern bloc countries and explain the critical juncture(s) that led to its affiliation with the USSR after 1945: Bulgaria Czechoslovakia Hungary Poland Romania Yugoslavia Was there a particular event—such as a treaty, revolution, or invasion— that caused this country to become a part of the Soviet sphere of influence? Or was it purely a result of geographic coincidence, or both? How did public opinion within this country respond to the Soviet affiliation in the early years of the Cold War? To what extent do you consider this nation to be either an active participant in the Cold War or a passive witness to it? Before WWII had even ended, the Soviet Union established governments in East Europe by occupying countries. Poland became a communist satellite state of the Soviet Union, known as the Polish People’s Republic. As Germany was being defeated, the Polish Communist minority cooperated with the Soviet Union, in opposition to the Polish government to establish a Polish socialist state. Stalin wanted governments who were loyal to the Soviet Union to act as a buffer zone against future German aggression. Poland was reorganized under a communist government. At the height of the cold war, Poland attempted to remain neutral to the conflict between the Soviets and the Americans. Poland was even l wanted as a mediator between the two countries in the 1970s. In June of 1956, there was an uprising of Polish industrial workers that caused a crisis among the Polish communist leadership as well as in the Soviet bloc and resulted in the establishment of a new Polish regime.
Poland was part of the Warsaw pact. The Warsaw pact was a collective defense treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe. The members of the Warsaw pact pledged to defend each other if one or more of them came under attack, emphasized non-interference in the internal affairs of its members, and supposedly organized itself around collective decision making. However, The Soviet Union controlled most of the Pact’s decisions. Poland would have to be considered an active participant in the cold war. WWII had placed Poland in the Soviet zone of influence and because if that, Poland was involved in the full length of the Cold War. Poland did not have any real opportunity to take action throughout the war, but its alliance with the Soviet Union did make it a. participant.
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