1. Military conquest.
2. Creating a puppet state.
3. Taking control of economic activity in a nation.
They allowed a small rural population to provide food for a large urban population
Added unification to the country
Answer:
Namely by making WW3 unthinkable. Without nuclear weapons in the picture, a massive conventional war between the United States and Soviet Union would have been virtually inevitable. The very reason it was a "Cold War" at all is thanks to nuclear weapons.
Explanation:
They experienced illness, the cold winter and shortages of supplies
