Developing tensions up to 1948 Flashcards
When was Kennan’s long telegram sent?
Febuary 1946
When did Churchill deliver the Iron Curtain Speech?
march 1946
When was cominform created
September 1947
When did communists take control over Czechoslovakia?
June 1948
When was the Russian bloc of satellite states completed?
1948
When was Yugoslavia expelled from Cominform?
1948
What did Kennan’s long telegram say?
That the USA should adopt a hard line approach against the USSR and Stalins attempt at a regime. For Kennan communism was uncompromising in it’s ideological threat to the free world.
economic imperialism
The idea that a state could use it’s economic power to ensure that an economically weaker state becomes dependant on it
When did the Greek civil war start?
1947
What happened with the Greek civil war?
When Greece was liberated from Nazi occupation, a civil war erupted between monarchists and Greek communists. Britain had been providing aid until 1947 when it appealed to the USA to assume the financial burden.
What was the significance of the Truman Doctrine?
It institutionalised divison as the working basis of East-West relations for at least the next 25 years
6 aims of the Truman Doctrine
1) prevent intervention in Greek civil war
2) protect democracy and freedom
3) demonise soviet union
4) designed to make the USSR feel threatened
5) formed an important element of the USA’s aim of developing its global economic power
6) containment policy
When was the Marshall plan and how much was given out?
June 1947
Over $13 billion
What did Stalin do in response to the Marshall plan?
Cominform
What was cominform?
a meeting in Poland between communist representatives from across Europe. In order for Stalin to consolidate Soviet influence in Eastern Europe
