Growing suspicion + competition: USA vs USSR 1945-1947

Question 1

What were two consequences of the USA using the atomic bomb against Japan?

Answer 1

I.The USSR built their own and the arms race began.

II. The USSR tightened its control over countries it occupied in Eastern Europe.

Question 2

In what year did the USSR get its own atomic bomb?

Answer 2

1949

Question 3

What did George Kennan’s Long Telegram say about the USSR in 1946?

Answer 3

The USSR was expanding its control and was aggressively trying to take over land in Europe.

Question 4

What did the USSR’s Novikov telegram say about the USA in reply?

Answer 4

The USA were aggressive and looking to dominate the world with its power.

Question 5

What Eastern European countries became Satellite States of the USSR up to 1948?

Answer 5

Poland, East Germany, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria

Question 6

Give examples of how different countries, especially Poland, came to be Satellite States

Answer 6

I.Rigged elections.

II.Communists taking key roles in coalition governments.

III.The Red Army.

Question 7

What did Winston Churchill famously say, in 1946, was happening in Europe?

Answer 7

An ‘Iron Curtain’ was developing between free capitalist countries and Communist countries.

Question 8

How did the USA view the USSR’s creation of “Satellite States”?

Answer 8

As an aggressive move – empire building

Question 9

What was Stalin’s justification for Satellite States?

Answer 9

I.That it was a buffer against future invasion.

II.Communism was good for the people.