SOVIET CONTROL OF EASTERN EUROPE
- Created by: Basital
- Created on: 04-04-17 09:15
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- Soviet take-over of Eastern Europe
- Memory of 1918-39
- Between the 2 WWs most Eastern European countries had be hostile to the USSR
- Poland + France signed -> non-aggression pact
- Hungary + Romania had fought on Germany's side in WW2 [against the USSR]
- Percentage deals
- Stalin + Churchill
- Towards the end of the war
- Agreed on the informal division of Eastern Europe
- Stalin assumed that Churchill was accepting the influence of soviets in Eastern Europe
- Strategic Importance of Poland
- Soviet security depended on a friendly Polish Government
- 1945 - Stalin wanted to move the Polish frontier so that most of it became the UUSR
- Stalin wanted a communist government in Poland
- Security
- USSR had been invaded by Germany, in 1914 AND 1945
- Stalin wanted a 'buffer zone' of friendly states
- Portect against future invasion.
- BUT
- THE WEST SAW THIS AS A TAKEOVER BY POLITICAL REASONS
- STALIN WANTED TO SPREAD COMMUNISM IN EUROPE
- THE WEST SAW THIS AS A TAKEOVER BY POLITICAL REASONS
- Memory of 1918-39
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