CAUSES OF THE COLD WAR
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- Created on: 13-11-14 14:37
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STAGE 2 - USSR IN EUROPE:
- one way the Soviet Union gained political control was through means known as 'salami tactics'
- this term came from Hungarian Communist leader Rakosi saying how the USSR secured Communist control was like 'slicing off salami, piece by piece';
- STAGE 1 - Soviets supervised the organisation of governments in East Europe, establishing an alliance of anti-fascists
- STAGE 2 - Each party was 'slice off' one after another
- STAGE 3 - only the Communist 'core' was left then ultimately the local communists replaced by Moscow-trained peple - by the end of 1946, the baggage train leaders returned from Moscow to their respective countries, Bierut (POLAND) Kolarov (BULGARIA) Pauker (ROMANIA) Rakosi (HUNGARY)
- these leaders would ensure post-war governments be dominated by Stalinist communists
POLANT CASE STUDY;
- were promised free elections finally held in 19th January 1947 after weeks of being posponed
- prior to elections, campaigns were held of murder, censorship and intimidation;
- estimated 50,000 people were deported to Siberia
- during elections, Mikolajozyk's Polish Peasant Party had 246 candidates disqualified, 149 arrested, 18 murdered - this pattern of Soviet-communist-style governments emerged in other East Europe countries that the Red Army at the end of WWII occupied - Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary
- only Czechoslovakia and Finland was there a democracy
IRAN;
- following Tehran conference, Britain withdrew troops but Stalin left 30,000 saying they were there to help but the troops ended up encouraging a communist uprising, Iranian government pleaded to Russia's old allies
- Britain and Americans demanded Stalin remove troops but on the 1st January 1946 he refused
- Truman wrote to the secretary of state that unless Russia was 'faced with an ironed fist and strong language, war is in the making
STAGE 3 - IRON CURTAIN:
- the speech was given 5th March 1946 in Fulton, Missouri
- "nobody knows what Soviet Russia and its communist international organisation intends to do in the immediate future/an iron curtain has descended across the continent/behind lie all the capitals of the ancient states - Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, [they] all lie in the Soviet Sphere"
- within one week of…
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