Exam 3: (2/6) Cold War Eastern Europe Flashcards
Escaped Soviet Union control
Yugoslavia
Purges
Goal: frighten people so the Bolshevik parties could rule more easily
Police forces trained in same area as Cheka
Began with members of communist party and spread from top to bottom
Cheka (year)
What did it turn into, and when?
(1917) Founded also in the year of the Bolshevik Revolution
(1954) Reorganized with a new name KGB, reached to all levels of society
show trials
Fake trials broadcast over radio to frighten the public
2 famous trials were Laszlo Rajk and Rudolf Slansky
Laszlo Rajk
Hungarian “guilty of being a spy an imperialist who planned on restoring capitalism to Hungary”
“rehab” in 1960s
Rudolf Slansky
Czech “guilty of Trotskyite-Titoist-Zionist activities in the service of American imperialism”
“rehab” in 1960s
“pewex”
Name in Poland for special supply shops
Hungarian Revolution (year)
(1956) To get rid of single party rule
Who led this movement that was cruelly crushed in Hungary?
Alexander Dubcek led the Prague Spring of 1968
Black Triangle
Had lots of resources like iron, uranium, lignite
People were sent to uranium mines during Purges, filled with heavy industrial work during Cold War
Brontosaurus Movement comes from where?
From Czechoslovakia
Capital of Romania
Bucharest
Ceausescu
Romanian leader with family policy where all women
Ecology Club comes from where?
(Poland) Tried to bring awareness to pollution like acid rain, but arrested
Ceausescu’s Palace
2nd largest building in the world, built by all the money hoarded by the palace namesake
