Stalin

Question 1

What happened in Yugoslavia?

Answer 1

• Determined to maintain independence.
• Tito was elected in 1945 and he was a communist.
• He wanted to maintain Their independence and not be influenced by Stalin.

Question 2

How did Stalin react to Tito’s resistance?

Answer 2

• Yugoslavia was expelled from cominform in 1948.
• Russia withdrew economic support.

Question 3

What did Tito do as a result?

Answer 3

• Strengthened economic relations with the west and gained support from the International Money Fund.

Question 4

Why did Stalin sign the Nazi soviet pact in 1939?

Answer 4

Stalin believed that Poland should be incorporated into the USSR.

Question 5

What did the Polish government do at the start of the war?

Answer 5

Fled to London and aimed to ensure that Poland wouldn’t lose territory when the war ended.

Question 6

What was determined after the Yalta conference?

Answer 6

• Stalin wanted Poland to be governed by a soviet backed council.
• Roosevelt and Churchill gave in and abandoned the London Poles.