Two countries that were lost to communism after World War II were Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Czechoslovakia fell under communist control in 1948 after a communist coup, and Hungary became a communist state following a Soviet-backed government takeover in 1949.
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Fear of Communism
The United states confronted Communism in East Asia after the Korean War with fear that communism would be intertwined to other countries. They entered the Korean Conflict shortly after world war 2.
Italy, Japan, and Germany lost in WW2.
To spread communism outside of Russian soil.
To my understanding the reason Truman helped the Europeans and Asian countries was because of communism, when countries are weak and poor they fall to communism and he didn't want that.
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Germany and the countries which were on its team. England and its supporters won .
All countries that were 'liberated' by the Soviet Union in World War 2 became Communist - latest in 1948.
No it wasn't. Communism wasn't even an issue when WW1 broke out.
The United States implemented the Marshall Plan to prevent the spread of communism into war weakened countries after World War II.