How Soviet Control Was Carried Out, 1945-47

Question 1

What did the countries the Soviet Union had liberated in WW2 have done to them ? What did they become known as

Answer 1

Soviet Union established communist governments in these countries
Known as satellite states

Question 2

What was the pattern with the countries ? C.B.O.P

Answer 2

1. Coalition governments set up (communists share power)
2. Stalin backs the communist party who then takes over civil service, media etc
3. Opposition arrested or killed
4. People’s democracies where set up which where rigged elections for the communists

Question 3

What are the six countries that are on the syllabus that the USSR took over ?

Answer 3

Poland
Romania
Hungary
Bulgari
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia

Question 4

What happened in Poland ?

Answer 4

• In June 1945 coalition government is set up
• 1947 rigged election places communists in power
• communists back by Stalin took over

Question 5

What happened to Romania ?

Answer 5

• coalition government set up in 1945
• mid 1945 soviet forces take over and disarm the Romanian army and the communist party are forced into power
• 1946 communists are voted into power again and the following year abolish the monarchy

Question 6

What happened to Hungary ? 3 stages of take over

Answer 6

• 1945, the country experienced economic crisis and the communist party began to take control of the ministry of interior allowing them to control the police
• 1947, they arrest opposition leaders and the prime minister Imre Nagy is forced to resign
• the communist party take over the government and all other parties are banned

Question 7

What happened to Bulgaria ?

Answer 7

• 1944 a communist dominated government is set up
• 1945 they win a rigged election and ban all other parties

Question 8

What happened to Czechoslovakia?

Answer 8

• 1947 already a big party and controlled the police and armed forces
• 1948 supported by soviet forces they seized control of the country
• opposition where forced to flee and some where killed

Question 9

What happened to Yugoslavia ?

Answer 9

• communist resistance fought against the Nazis in the war but did not want to take orders from Stalin
• it was banned from Cominform and economic sanctions where applied however they took aid from the west