From the 1500s, large parts of the present-day countries became part of or were influenced by the Vienna-based Habsburg Monarchy until the end of World War I and the dissolution of the Habsburg-ruled Austria-Hungary. After World War II, the countries became satellite states of the Soviet Union, as the Polish People's Republic, the Hungarian People's Republic and the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. In 1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe enabled the three countries to embrace capitalism and democracy.