Title: What Areas Did Communism Spread To? | The Classroom
Headings: What Areas Did Communism Spread To?
What Areas Did Communism Spread To?
Paris Commune
Soviet Union
Eastern Europe
China and East Asia
Africa and Others

Content: Soviet supported communist parties took over in Poland in 1945, Albania and Bulgaria in 1946, Romania in 1947, Czechoslovakia in 1948, East Germany and Hungary in 1949. Though nominally independent, these countries were really satellites of the Soviet Union, and when any tried to break away from the policies of Russian communism they were invaded by the USSR, as happened in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968. Only Yugoslavia, another European communist country, remained independent in its policies, as its leader Josip Tito had the power and charisma to keep the country outside Soviet influence. China and East Asia
Communist also spread to East Asia, largely through the influence of China, which became a communist country in 1949 under Mao Zedong. Communism spread to North Korea in 1948, which led to the Korean War between them and the U.S. supported South from 1950 to 1953, as well as to North Vietnam in 1945. After the U.S. failed to defeat the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War, communism spread to neighboring Cambodia and Laos in 1975, while North Vietnam conquered the South and established a unified communist Veitnam in 1976. In East Asia Mongolia became communist in 1924 and maintained close ties to the Soviet Union. Africa and Others
The Cold War also saw communism spread to Africa and other parts of the world. South Yemen became a communist state in 1967 after decolonization from the British, the only openly communist state in the Middle East. The Republic of Congo experienced similar turmoil after the French granted them independence in 1960, with a communist party emerging triumphant in 1970.