Soviet Expansion - Detail

• When was the Provisional government of national Unity formed in Poland?

  1945
• When did the socialist and communist parties merge in Poland?

  1947
• What percentage of the vote was won by the communists in Poland?

  80%
• Who was removed for nationalist deviation in Poland?

  Gomulka
• How many seats did the communist party win in Romania?

  372/414
• How much of the vote did Petkov win in 1946 and what happened to him?

  20% and he was arrested and executed
• Who were the communists biggest opponent in Hungary?

  Smallholders party
• What tactics did the USSR use in Hungary?

  arrests of political opponents, intimidation and vote rigging
• How did the communists gain support in Czechoslovakia?

  they already supported the communists but the communists gave land to peasants to gain their support too
• Who led Yugoslavia?

  Tito
• Why was Yugoslavia expelled from Cominform?

  Because Tito would not be a ‘Soviet puppet’.
• How was East Germany made communist?

  Socialist and communist parties merged to create the SED