the liberation of eastern and western europe 1943- 1945

Question 1

what did the british government want to see in poland after the german’s were defeated?

Answer 1

a democratic system

Question 2

what did stalin what to happen in poland?

Answer 2

after the red army defeated the germans they would establish a communist dictatorship there

Question 3

where did britian and france agree the soviets would take?but what did the soviets do?

Answer 3

eastern poland up to the curzon line although in 1944 soviet troops had crossed the line and moved into western poland.

Question 4

in what year did the soviets recongnise the communist dominated committe for national liberation?

Answer 4

1945

Question 5

when did the USSR launch an attack on romania and why?

Answer 5

in 1944 because they were determined to re-annex Bessarabia and northern bushovia which had being occupied in 1940

Question 6

what did britian and the USA tactical accept Romania as and what was created, and who was it dominated by??

Answer 6

soviet sphere of influence, an ACC and it was dominated by soviet officals which established a communist government

Question 7

what did the occupation of romania allow the soviets to do and when?

Answer 7

invade Bulgaria in september 1944 and establish an ACC in october

Question 8

what did the red army’s arrival strengthen in bulgaria ? and what did it almost cause? but what did stalin do?

Answer 8

the local communist there, which almost caused a communist revolution although stalin stopped it because he did not want to antagonis his western allies

Question 9

when was mossolini overthrown? and when did the allies conqure nothern italy?

Answer 9

in 1943 and the allies conqured northern italy in 1945

Question 10

what was italy the first to do?

Answer 10

the first axis state to sign an armistice

Question 11

what did the way italy was administrated do? and what happened to all soviet requests to be involeved?what did this cause?

Answer 11

set important presedents for the future, they were rejected by britain and the USA, this gave stalin an excuse to exclude them from eastern europe

Question 12

when did the soviet troops join with partison to invade yugoslavia?

Answer 12

in october 1944

Question 13

what did tito do with that partison army?

Answer 13

waged war againist non-communist leading to a communist take over in 1945

Question 14

what did tito encourage in greece? but what did stalin do?

Answer 14

a commnuist revolt in dec 1944 but stalin urged them to form a coalition and allowed the british troops to stop them as he saw greece as british sphere of influence

Question 15

what did the agreement at tehran do?

Answer 15

ensured hungary’s fate

Question 16

when did the societ army reach hungary?

Answer 16

in 1944

Question 17

what was stalin’s immedaite aim in hungary?

Answer 17

to collect anything that can be claimed as reparation

Question 18

what did stalin do in czehchalovakia? and when

Answer 18

stalin annexing the eatern part of the contry in autum 1944 and more later on. tjis shifted the power balance to the communist party

Question 19

when did the socviet troops invade finland ? and what were they granted? which allowed what?

Answer 19

in the summer of 1944, they were granted an armistice wereby they had to pay reparations and give a small part of there land but were allowed considerable degree of freedom

Question 20

when was paris liberated and what did they do instantly?why?

Answer 20

in 1944 and establised an independent government, to reduce the prodomince of the anglo-americans

Question 21

when was a french soviet alliance signed?

Answer 21

dec 1944

Question 22

why did the french communist party have a major rule in french politics?

Answer 22

due to the prodominate role they played in fighting the resistance