who was to blame for the cold war? Flashcards
what was cominform?
Stalin set up cominform and alliance of communist countries in 1947 as a response to the Marshall plan.
who was the only leader who declined stalins cominform?
Marshall Tito of yugoslavia
what was comecon?
set up by Stalin to coordinate the production and trade of the eastern European countries.
what does NATO stand for?
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
what was NATO?
the military alliance contained most of the states in western Europe
what was the NATO’s main aim?
to defend each of its members.
why was NATO important at the time?
when the USSR developed an atomic bomb in 1949 they had to defend themselves by uniting
when was the Warsaw pact set up?
1955
what was the Warsaw pact?
a communist version of NATO
when did Germany join NATO?
in 1955
why was the Warsaw pact set up?
because the soviets had not forgotten the damage that Germany had done to the USSR in the second world war
