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The Oxford English Dictionary traces the concept of satellite states in English back as early as 1780. [4] In times of war or political tension, satellite states sometimes served as buffers between an enemy country and the nation exerting control over the satellites. [5]
The term has also been applied to states which are extremely economically dependent on a more powerful nation. The three Pacific Ocean countries associated with the United States under the Compact of Free Association (the Federated States of Micronesia , the Marshall Islands , and Palau ) have been called client states.
East Germany was the most advanced industrial nation of the Eastern Bloc. [186] Until the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, East Germany was considered a weak state, hemorrhaging skilled labor to the West such that it was referred to as "the disappearing satellite". [222]
Soviet satellite states — the Communist satellite states of the Soviet Union The Soviet states were primarily part of the Soviet Eastern Bloc in Eastern Europe ; and in Central Asia . See also the categories Former socialist republics and Soviet republics
The First French Empire and its satellite states in 1812 The Batavian Republic was established in the Netherlands under French revolutionary protection. In Italy, the French First Republic encouraged a proliferation of small republics in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known as sister republics .
How exactly does a satellite state differ from a Satellite nation? FerralMoonrender 00:03, 29 March 2007 (UTC) Satellite state is the standard term, and is preferable to satellite nation because 'nation' implies characteristics such as national identity. Being a satellite is a charcateristic of states, rather than nations.
It was funded by the Republican -controlled Congress, where the isolationist Republican element was overwhelmed by a new internationalism. Stalin refused to let any of his satellite nations in Eastern Europe participate. Much less famous was a similar aid program aimed at Japan, China and other Asian countries.
The first artificial satellite launched into the Earth's orbit was the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1, on October 4, 1957. As of December 31, 2022, there are 6,718 operational satellites in the Earth's orbit, of which 4,529 belong to the United States (3,996 commercial), 590 belong to China, 174 belong to Russia, and 1,425 belong to other nations. [1]