Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The development of the Cold War:
Satellite states
- What is a satellite state?
- It is an official independent
country which is secretly
controlled by another country
- 1947-1949 the USSR turned Czech,
Hungary and Poland into satellite states
- Why did stalin set up these
satellite states?
- Stalin believed the US
was trying to 'buy Europe'
and forming allies along
the way
- Stalin set up satellite
states in Europe in
hope of preventing this
so he could reject any
offers of Truman's
Marshall Plan
- Cominform 1947 (The
Communist Information
Bereau)
- Communist organisation
whereby it represented
Communist parties across
Europe (under the direction of
the USSR)
- The Cominform
conference rejected the
Marshall plan
- Communist parties in western
Europe were encouraged to organise
strikes against Marshall Plan
- France 1947 (winter) 2 million
workers who were sympathetic to
communists went on strike demanding
the French government to reject
Marshall aid
- Also used to ensure the
loyalty of European
communist governments
and removed those who
were not loyal to Stalin
- 5% of Hungary's population
was in prison by 1953, Stalin
stamped out his opposition
which consolidated
(strengthened) the power of
the USSR through eastern
Eutope
- Comecon 1949 (The
Council for Mutual
Economic Assistance)
- aimed to encourage the
economic development of
eastern Europe
- Comecon attempted to
prevent trade with
western Europe and
America
- The implications of this were:
- 1. It would minimise
American
influence in
Eastern Europe
and in the USSR
- 2. It made sure the
economic recovery
in Europe remained
in the USSR's
'sphere of influence'
- 3. It meant there
was a clear divide as
Eastern Europe did
not have access to
the prosperity of
Western Europe
- 'Two Camps'
- Following the POTSDAM conference
in 1945 both the US and USSR
recognised there was a clear divide
into 'two camps'. The division had
been hardened due to the from the
policies Marshal aid; which formed a
camp in the west, and Comecon and
Cominform; which lead to the
establishment of soviet camps in the
east.
- In 1945 there was 2
unofficial spheres of
influence