The Cold War

Cards (9)

  • 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.