Between 1945 and 1949 Stalin created a Russian empire in Eastern Europe. This empire included Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and East Germany. Each had a Communist government. In the West they were called satellites because they clung closely to the Soviet Union like satellites round a planet.

After the war, the U.S.’ s primary goal was prosperity through open markets and a strengthened Europe. The Soviet Union sought prosperity through security; a rebuilt Europe would be a threat. Similarly, the U.S. advocated capitalism while the Soviets advocated communism.

The goals of the United States during the Cold War was to isolate the Soviet Union from spreading Communism, encourage Democracy and to promote open markets for the US goods to prevent another depression.

The goals of the United States and Russia in the Cold War were the same: increase their own power gaining political, economic and military allies. But both countries were one on each side of the spectrum.

what were the postwar goals of the us and the soviet union? Americans wanted to bring democracy and economic opportunity to the conquered nations of Europe and Asisa. The soviet Union wanted to rebuild in ways that would protect its onw interests.

Stalin’s main motive for the creation of Soviet satellite states in Eastern Europe was the need for security. When the war ended, the Soviet Union was the only Communist country in the world and Stalin believed that Western countries were bent on destroying it.

The name “People’s Republic” was introduced and defined by the Constitution of 1952. Like other Eastern Bloc countries (East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania), Poland was regarded as a satellite state in the Soviet sphere of interest, but it was never a part of the Soviet Union.

The Soviet satellite states were Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, East Germany, Yugoslavia, and Albania (Yugoslavia and Albania were satellite states until they broke off from the Soviet in 1948 and 1960, respectively).

Sometimes the Warsaw Pact countries were called satellite states, but they had more freedom than most satellite states. Belarus is currently a satellite state of Russia.

Satellite nations are those Eastern European nations that were allied with and under the control of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, including Poland, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany.

The term “satellite nation” was coined as an analogy to planetary objects orbiting a larger object, such as moons around planets. Countries in the West started using the term “satellite nation” to describe these nations as they were held in the orbit or gravitational pull of the Soviet Union.