The Cold War

• When did Russia become communist?

  1917
• Warsaw Pact:

  USSR , Albania , Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland,
• NATO :

  USA , Britain, France , Belgium , Canada
• When did Russia form alliances with China?

  1950
• How many people were now added under USSR rule during the war?

  20 million
• When was Churchill's Iron Curtain speech?

  1946
• What were the disagreements over Germany after WWII?

  UK and US felt that they should help Germany recover after the war. Stalin wanted to keep Germany weak.
• When does the USSR develop their first atomic bomb?

  1949
• When does Stalin seize Eastern Europe?

  1945 to 1948 - Baltic States, Finland, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania.