Developing tensions
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- Created on: 18-04-20 08:34
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- Topic 2
- How the USSR took control
- Poland
- Pro-Stalin Lublin government was established and could now help Stalin take political control
- Stalin agreed for free and fair election but made sure he won everytime
- Communist and polish socialist party merged
- Stalins testing ground for methology
- Romania
- Red army occupied romania
- They offered Romania an alternate pre-war regime
- Bulgaria
- Manipulated elections to eliminate non-communists politicians
- Agrarian party represented by Nikola Petkov won over 20% of the popular vote but was later executed
- 1949 all other parties apart from communism was banned
- Hungary
- 1949 all other parties apart from communism was banned
- Communist parties allied with other parties to eliminate smaller political parties
- Laslo Rajk, communist leader was executed for non soviet behaviour
- Czechoslovakia
- Communism was popular with rural workers
- Edvard Beneš, the new president supported communism
- He resigned in 1948 and Moscow took control
- Klement Gottwald took over
- He resigned in 1948 and Moscow took control
- Non- communist groups began to rise
- Klement Gottwald was open to recieve financial aid from the west but was then expelled
- Yugoslavia
- Josip Broz Tito rejected Soviet dominance
- Independent communist country
- 1948- Yugoslavia was expelled from Cominform
- The USA offered economic aid after they were expelled
- Poland
- Cominform
- Created in 1947 to oppose Western schemes such as the Truman doctrine
- The long telegram
- George Kennans telegram exposed the USSR's plans and gave advice on how to tackle the problems
- USSR viewed the West as hostile and menacing
- Peace between USSR and the West were unlikely
- USSR foreign policy was aggressive and ideologically driven
- USA should prepare for potential threats
- Prosperity in the West undermined communism in the East
- The Truman doctrine
- Communisms must be kept quarantined to stop it spreading
- Showed the extent the USA would go to to protect their interests
- Supplied aid to Europe to strengthen anti-communist parties and prevent any countries from falling into Stalins control
- The Iron Curtain speed
- Winston Churchill delivered the speech on the 6th of March 1946
- No longer British PM but still had a lot of influence. since he had no involvement in the British political system he was free to speak his mind
- Churchills speech was viewed by the USSR as a direct attack
- Churchill reffered to the European split as curtain that could not be entered
- Stalin responded in a Soviet Newspaper 'Pravda' saying that the West did not want peace or for the USSR to be secure
- The Marshal plan
- The USA gave financial aid to countries that needed it in Europe only if they had no intention of joining or associating themselves with Stalin or communism
- How the USSR took control
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