EURO 1050 Lecture 6: Euro Studies - WEEK VI

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: European Studies
• Course: EURO 1050
• Professor: Brian Mc Dougall

Document Summary

Yugoslavia and albania were communist, but weren"t part of the main bloc economic and military overlordship of eastern europe derived from wwii from there, the soviets were able to create a first world communist regime. Stalin wanted a buffer zone to protect the soviet union from invasion (mostly from. By 1949, many of eastern europe"s countries became communist countries (called. Point ii: the emergence of collective institutions in an effort to bind the emerging soviet bloc, the emergence of collective institutions in. Western europe occurred the cominform, shorthand for communist information bureau . Stalin had disolved the comintern in 1943 because he wanted britain and. America to know that he wouldn"t exploit communism while they were allies this was an international organization of communist parties. By september 1947, the cold war was in full swing, the americans introduced the truman doctrine and the marshal plan to protect western europe from communism.