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Early development in the cold war: part 1 - Coggle Diagram
Early development in the cold war: part 1
Satellite states in Europe
Satellite state: A nation once independent but now controlled by another
Soviet army freed lots of European countries from Nazi control in 1945
Stalin didn't want to give up on these countries
Stalin knew he could use the countries as buffer zones/protection from future conflict with Germany
The Germans would need to get through a lot in order to get to the USSR
By making them satellite states, it would cause Truman to believe that Stalin was trying to spread Soviet influence around Europe
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
Conquered in 1940 and treated as the Soviet Union
Yugoslavia and Albania
Never occupied by the USSR
Still followed communist regime
Had more freedom than other soviet states
Stalin turned six other countries into satellite states
Controlled from Moscow
Communist governments
Little Independence
Chzechoslovakia
Only democracy in Eastern Europe (1945)
Stalin saw it as a threat to the buffer zone
Stalin overthrew the government and made it communist in 1948
The telegrams and the rising tension
Kennan's long telegram
George Kennan, US diplomat, reported on the situation in Moscow, by sending a long telegram, like a letter
Taken very seriously by the American government
Said that Stalin wanted to see to the destruction of capitalism, and wished for complete control of the world
Said that Stalin saw the outside world as a threat
Kickstarted American idea of communist containment
Novikov's telegram
Nikolai Novikov was a Soviet diplomat working in Washington
His telegram Stated that the USA wanted to use its military dominance to reign over the USSR
Caused fright and Panic within the USSR, causing STalin to strenghten his control over the satellite states
Stated that the Americans didn't want to cooperate with the USSR any longer
If it led to war, all American citizens and west europe would support USA's cause
As tension arose between USA and the USSR, both Truman and Stalin asked their ambassies to report on their situation (1946)
The iron curtain speech
Even thoguh in 1946 Winston Churchill was no longer Prime minister, he had great influence
Given in the USA by Winston Churchill
Discussed about how the USSR is a threat to world peace
Given because of the forming of satellite states in Europe
Used a metaphor of an Iron Curtain dividing Europe in two
East: Communist
WestL Capitalist