Flashcards
Soviet "Salami Tactics" in Eastern Europe
Cards in this deck (7)
- 1AlbaniaThe communists immediately took power in 1945
- 2BulgariaIn the 1945 elections, a Communist-led coalition was elected, but the communists executed the non-communists
- 3East GermanyEast Germany was the Soviet zone of Germany. In 1949, they set up a Communist-controlled state called the German Democratic Republic.
- 4RomaniaIn the 1945 elections a communist-led coalition was elected to power. The Communists gradually took over and by 1947 they abolished the Monarchy.
- 5PolandStalin had promised to set up a joint Communist/non-Communist government at Yalta, but then he invited 16 non-Communist leaders to Moscow and arrested them. Thousands of non-Communists were arrested, and the Communists won the 1947 election.
- 6HungaryThe non-communists won the 1945 elections with Zoltan Tildy as president. However, the Communists' leader, Rakosi, took control of the secret police (the AVO), and executed and arrested his opponents. Tildy was forced to resign and Cardinal Mindzenty, head of the Catholic Church, was imprisoned. By 1948, Rakosi had complete control of Hungary.
- 7CzechoslovakiaA coalition government was set up and led by the non-Communist Benes. However, the Communists' leader Gottwald made sure they controlled the radio, the army and the police. Gottwald became prime minister and set up a secret police force. Non-Communists were arrested. In 1948, Communist workers went on strike, the non-Communist minister Masaryk committed suicide and Gottwald took over the government.