Question

1. Which best describes why the Soviet Union established buffer states around its borders?

a. to enlarge the country
b. to protect itself from direct invasion
c. to intimidate potential invaders
d. to promote European integration

2. What was the Iron Curtain?

a. a term for the divide that isolated the East
b. another name for the Berlin Wall
c. Stalin’s term for the buffer states
d. the name for the Soviet defense system

3. Which of these most likely explains why people in the Eastern Bloc had little contact with the West?

a. They feared the West.
b. They had no access to Western culture.
c. They disproved of capitalism.
d. They could not travel freely.

Answer 1

the answer to 3 is actually D They could not travel freely

Answer 2

1. As far as I remember, the Soviet Union established buffer states around its borders b. to protect itself from direct invasion. The most important states was Ukrainian SSR and eastern SSR. To protect borders from invasions from Europe and Asia.

2. Iron Curtain is a. a term for the divide that isolated the East. This division began at the end of WW2 (1945) until the fall of the Soviet Union.

3. I think there could be more than one option. I suggest you to choose between b. They had no access to Western culture. or d. They could not travel freely. As they're both correct. Try your luck.