Soviet Expansion in Eastern Europe Flashcards
How did Truman and Stalin feel about the break-up of the wartime alliance?
They were both worried, so that increased tension and lead to future conflict. Wanted to know each others plans, by 1946, they spied on each other with telegrams from their embassies.
What is the Long Telegram?
The Long Telegram was the telegram sent by George Kennan (the USA’s ambassador in Moscow) discussing about US-Soviet relationships.
It’s know as the Long Telegram as normally telegrams were quite short, but this one was more like a letter.
The content worried the American government.
What was the content of the Long Telegram that worried the USA the most?
George Kennan reported that Stalin wanted to destroy Capitalism and that he felt that the world was looking to destroy Communism.
What came as a result of the Long Telegram?
The Truman Doctrine. The policy of containment of the USSR.
Soviet views on US intentions
Nikolai Sovikov
Soviet views on US intentions
Nikolai Novikov (Sviet diplomat in Washington) sent a telegram to the Soviet government that said that the USA wanted to dominate the world with its military power and that americans didn’t want to work with the Soviet Union. Also, people would support a war against the USSR
Impact of Churchill’s Iron curtain speech
In 1946, Churchill still had a great influence. He said that the the Soviet Union was a threat to world peace and freedom since communist governments had been set up in Hungary, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria.
What two things made the Soviet Union strengthen their military and set up anti-Western propaganda?
Nikolai Kovikov’s telegram and the Iron Curtain speech, as they thought that that speech influenced the USA to go against the USSR as well.
