telegrams, speeches, alliance

Question 1

iron curtain speech

Answer 1

speech made by churchill, saying that an (imaginary) iron curtain has divided the east and west

Question 2

the long telegram

Answer 2

George kennan saw the USSR as aggressive and suspicious, he reccomended firm action against the soviet union, his telegram influenced trumans policies (containment)

Question 3

the novikov telegram

Answer 3

soviet union was angered by the long telegram so retaliated. novikov made a telegram accusing the USA of trying to achieve world dominance.

Question 4

The truman doctrine

Answer 4

created a new policy of containment, supported greece through a communist takeover

Question 5

The Marshall plan

Answer 5

economic aid given to suffering eurpoean countries from the USA
17 billion was given
east and west became more divided
stalin accused the USA of using the plan to dominate europe

Question 6

Cominform

Answer 6

USSR response to the Truman doctrine
the communist information bureau
set up to enable the USSR to coordinate communist parties throughout europe
introduced to ensure that the states in eastern europe followed soviet aims

Question 7

Comecon

Answer 7

soviet response to the Marshall plan
the council for mutual assistance
supposedly made so that the USSR could financially support countries in eastern europe
was really used for the USSR to contol economies

Question 8

NATO

Answer 8

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
formed by the west
military alliance that committed all members to the defence of the others
Stalin saw it as a threat (leads to Warsaw pact)

Question 9

Warsaw pact

Answer 9

counter force to NATO
defensive military alliance of the USSR and its sattelite states
if one nation was attacked the others would come to its support