The Warsaw Pact
A mind map showing the different countries involved in the Warsaw Pact and how they ended up under the effective control of the USSR
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?- 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
- Pledge to defend one another against an aggressor
- 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
- Leader of popular Agrarian party executed
- Czeohoslovakia
- Czech communists popular with the people
- Leader- Gottwald- became Prime Minister
- Czech communists popular with the people
- 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
- The Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance
- All non-communist members of the government resigned in February 1948
- Czeohoslovakia
- Czech communists popular with the people
- Leader- Gottwald- became Prime Minister
- Czech communists popular with the people
- Czeohoslovakia
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