There were many countries that became Communist countries after the cold war and most of them were eastern European and Asian countries. These countries include Cuba, China, Russia, Austria, Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, East Germany, North Korea, Romania and Czechoslovakia
All of eastern Europe fell under Communist domination between the end of WWII and the mid-50s: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Yugoslavia, and half of Germany. A communist government was established in North Korea with the help of the Soviets around 1948.
Communist insurgencies were started, with some assistance from the KGB, in several countries in Africa, some of which eventually overthrew their own governments and formed Communist governments: Somalia, Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique, Congo-Brazzaville, Benin.
The Chinese Communists threw out the Nationalist Chinese government and took over China in the late 1940s. They eventually overthrew the government of Tibet, and continue to occupy it to this day.
Communist insurgencies began all over Southeast Asia, and eventually succeeded in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.
Cuba became a communist nation in 1959, and communists eventually formed governments in Nicaragua and Guinnea-Bissau in the 1970s.
Yemen became a communist nation in 1967, and Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt all accepted military aid from the Soviets, though none of them formed formal communist governments.
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The communist states were East Germany, Soviet Union, Poland, China, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, North Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Angola, and Mozambique.
Most of the states were and are not true communists, many tend to sway towards dictatorships, military dictatorships, or a form of capitalistic totalitarianism.
its soviet and allies :)
The Cold War was primarily between the United States and Soviet Union.
The Cold War was the conflict between the Communist nations, led by the Soviet Union and Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia and the democratic nations led by the United States.
The historians have so far not reached any agreement on the time in which the Cold War began. It is, however, quite safe to say that since 1947 when President Truman of the United States declared an anti-communist policy, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union had begun.
Throughout the 1980s, the Soviet Union fought an increasingly frustrating war in Afghanistan. At the same time, the Soviet economy faced the continuously escalating costs of the arms race. Dissent at home grew while the stagnant economy faltered under the combined burden. Attempted reforms at home left the Soviet Union unwilling to rebuff challenges to its control in Eastern Europe. During 1989 and 1990, the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe. In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics. With stunning speed, the Iron Curtain was lifted and the Cold War came to an end.
To defend from or attack NATO on order.
See website: USSR
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North Korea.
west germany, England, France, Denmark, Luxemburg, Saarland, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Italy, and Portugal are a few examples.
Yugoslavia.
It was called the "Domino Theory".
It had to do with the Domino Effect - when one country fell to communism, all the surrounding countries would also fall.
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The US was worried that if Vietnam fell to communism it would lead to a domino effect. It was believed that nearby countries would also become communist as a result.
that if one country fell to communism, the countries around it would fall too
It was known as the "Domino Theory".
The US's goals were to stop Communism from spreading to other countries and to control or stop the military threat of Soviet Union and Communist China. This meant that the US had to have a military power and arsenal that was equal to or better than that of those countries.
That was Jimmy Carter's policy of containment, and if he'd have been reelected it probably would have worked.
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