The Warsaw Pact

Created by: Sam Brewer
Created on: 06-04-13 10:04

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The Warsaw Pact
- The Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance
  - Pledge to defend one another against an aggressor
    - Specifically aimed against NATO
  - Consisted of Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia and the USSR
  - Increased the tensions in the cold war stand off
- Poland
  - Lublin government was Stalin's means of controlling Poland
  - Communists weakened Polish national groups such as the countries Peasant Party by strengthening links with Polish socialists
  - Was the first testing ground for Stalin's methodology
- Romania
  - Romanian King forced to appoint communist government with Soviet army in the country following WWII
  - Popular alternative to pre-warm regime
  - Little opposition for Stalin to deal with
- Bulgaria
  - Leader of popular Agrarian party executed
    - Party was absorbed into communist movement
  - All other political parties were banned by April 1947
- Czeohoslovakia
  - Czech communists popular with the people
    - Leader- Gottwald- became Prime Minister
- Hungary
  - Small holders party biggest opposition to communism
  - Communists allied with other national communist movements
    - Close links were made with the non-Soviet communists in Yugoslavia
  - Hungarian communist leader Rajk was executed for 'anti-socialist' behaviour
  - Non political opposition to regime by 1949
All non-communist members of the government resigned in February 1948
- Czeohoslovakia
  - Czech communists popular with the people
    - Leader- Gottwald- became Prime Minister