the greek civil war Flashcards

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what was the seen as a cataypt that triggered a fundemental reoriention of us policey ?

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greek civil war

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who were the civil war between?

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the monarchist and greek communistwhen greece was liberated from the nazi occupation

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what happend in feburary 1947?

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brotain stopped providing aid to the anti-commnunist forces in greece and appealed to the usa to assume the financial burden-due to harvest problems going on in britian

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who was stalin unsympathetic to and why?

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indegenous commnunist revolutions becase he could not ensure moscow’s control

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what was truman keen to do but why couldn’t he?

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keen to be invovled in greece however could not ensure congess support as most of congress was isolationist

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when did the democrates lose the election and why?

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1946 mid-term elections due the success of the repulican

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what did truman exagerrate and distort?

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the threat posed by commnunism and dramtized the conflict between the united states and the soviet union as a conflict between sets of ideas

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