Expansion Into Eastern Europe Flashcards
When was the Iron Curtain Speech?
March 1946
What did the Iron Curtain Speech speak about?
How the Soviet Union was a threat to world peace
Why was Churchill provoked to make the Iron Curtain Speech?
Due to the communist governments set up in Hungary, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria
How did Stalin view the Iron Curtain speech?
Chose to reflect the speech as American views as well
What did the Iron Curtain speech speak about?
An imaginary line between East and West
What did the Iron Curtain speech and Novikov telegram cause?
Increased tensions that led the USSR to strengthen forces and start anti-western propaganda
How did the satellite states that Stalin created in Eastern Europe worsen tensions?
Truman saw it as evidence that Stalin wanted communism to be spread worldwide
What did the imaginary line in the Iron Curtain speech become?
Eastern and Western Bloc’s
What has the Soviet Red Army done in 1944-45?
Saved many countries in East Europe from the Nazis
Why didn’t Stalin want to give up the countries the Red Army had saved after the war?
They were a buffer zone between Soviet Union and Germany
What did Stalin turn the countries the Soviet Red Army saved from the Nazis into?
Satellite states with communist governments
