Warsaw Pact Flashcards

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The wrasaw Pact causes

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Formation of NATO meant that Communist countries were threatened and needed to ‘defend’ themselves from the West.

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Effects of the warsaw pact

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Led to USSR ‘bringing in the tanks’ when countries tried to leave the Warsaw Pact
Created a military alliiance of communist countries

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De-stalinisation causes

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Stalin died in 1953

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Effects of stalins death

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Russia’s new leader Khrushchev promised a more liberal and less oppressive approach to ruling USSR and the Satellite states than that under Stalin

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Key features of cominform

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Arragned leadership
Got rid of any opposition to USSR
Protest against Marshall aid
Comecon set up in 1939
Comecon was USSR verson of the Marshall plan

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Effects of Marshall plan and Comecon

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After the Marshall Plan and Comecon there were two very different economic groups in the World – Capitalist and Communist.

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NATO

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North
Atlantic
Treaty
Organisation

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NATO causes

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Formed as a reaction to the berlin blockade with the goal to keep USA in Europe and USSR ot of europe

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NATO Key features

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NATO memners agreed that if any NATO country was attacked they would come to that country’s defence
NATO was a military alliance
NATO defending the west

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Effects of NATO

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USSR responded by creating the ‘Warsaw Pact’

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