Satellite States and the Iron Curtain
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- Satellite States and Iron Curtain
- Telegrams 1946
- start of period with high tension
- caused many secret telegrams ordered from their ambassadors
- stated their attitudes
- caused many secret telegrams ordered from their ambassadors
- Kennan's Long telegram told Stalin
- called for a destruction of capitalism
- USSR building military
- no peace in USSR while opposed capitalism
- Novikov's telegram to Stalin
- US wanted to dominate the world
- US public prepared for war
- US gov. didn't want to cooperate with the USSR
- start of period with high tension
- Satellite States
- a country officially independent but is really controlled by another country
- Stalin created them as buffer zone and to stop 'dollar imperialism'
- USSR kept control
- each state communist leader
- using police and army to stop opposition
- making economies dependent on USSR
- having an atmosphere of fear and destruction
- Hungary
- communist party not enough seats in free elections in 1945
- Com. party came to power in 1947 by "free elections" - intimidation
- Poland
- com. in power in 1947
- invited 16 non-com. leaders to Moscow and arrested them.
- thousand non- com. arrested
- Czechoslovakia
- in free election 1945, coalition of left wing in power
- 1946, most gov. com.
- 1948 used army to imprison any non-com.
- a country officially independent but is really controlled by another country
- Cominform 1947
- international organisation that brought all parties under USSR control
- Eastern European countries didn't receive Marshal Aid
- Protests took place
- ensured loyalty amongst all E. Europe countries
- Comecon 1949
- Stalins response to Marshal Plan
- aim to encourage economic development
- prevented trade with Eastern Europe
- minimise USA influence in East
- Churchills Iron Curtain Speech
- 5th March 1946
- warned against the expansion of the USSR
- "iron curtain" separating east and west. clear divide between communism and capitalism
- Telegrams 1946
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