Warsaw Pact

Question 1

The wrasaw Pact causes

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Effects of the warsaw pact

Answer 2

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

Question 3

De-stalinisation causes

Answer 3

Stalin died in 1953

Question 4

Effects of stalins death

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Key features of cominform

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Effects of Marshall plan and Comecon

Answer 6

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

Question 7

NATO

Answer 7

North
Atlantic
Treaty
Organisation

Question 8

NATO causes

Answer 8

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

Question 9

NATO Key features

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Effects of NATO

Answer 10

USSR responded by creating the ‘Warsaw Pact’