Trade flourished because these progressing empires were developing new ways to produce products and utilize agriculture in their areas, such as Han with silk and Rome with olives and fishing/seafaring. These empires has never had access to goods that were from other areas before the Silk road, causing trade to become immensely popular and relied upon.
The United States won the battle of Cape Esperance on the northwest coast of Guadalcanal Island against the Japanese reinforcements that came at night. The Japanese hoped to position themselves to have a direct route to Austria and to New Zealand wich Japan hoped to capture in their quest for territorial expansion. The US navy harrassed Japanese ships and by 1942 the Japanese were ready to evacuate the island in defeat. The US basic strategy was "island hopping" which was taking one island at a time from the Japanese occupation.
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The right answer is The USSR needed to protect its western border from future attacks.
Besides the Ally victory in the WWII, the USSR lost approximately 20 million Russians. Worried about future attacks, Stalin planned to build a buffer zone of communist friendly states around Russia, in order to avoid future invasion. Something that happened during the WWII and heavily cost millions of Russian lives battling against German invasion.
The conclusion was to take control over Eastern Europe (EE). As the Red Army drove the Nazis back, it occupied large areas of EE, and made sure communist governments took control of power. The Communists controlled the army and chased its opponents. By 1949, all the governments of Eastern Europe, except Yugoslavia, were associated with the Stalinist regime.
