A unified group of countries, the Communist bloc was located in central and Eastern Europe, East Asia and Southeast Asia under the hegemony of the URSS. This bloc was denominated as Eastern bloc. And encompassed countries such as Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and several other European countries. This was a group that was led by the mighty Stalin of USSR.
By February 1854, anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party. One such meeting, in Wisconsin on March 20, 1854, is generally remembered as the founding meeting of the Republican Party. Hope I Helped! :)
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They wanted to find a faster way to the East Indies.