Why did the Cold War start?
- Created by: Yzyl Quintana
- Created on: 19-02-17 11:19
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- Causes of tension
- Ideologicaldifferences
- 2 sides diametrically opposed
- Comintern
- Organisation increased anti-capitalist propaganda
- Increase in communism after the Great depression in the 1930s?
- Red scare?
- Treaty of Brest Litovsk (March 1918)
- Bolshevik gov. to take Russia out of WWI
- Betrayal amongst the allies
- Now Germany only had to focus on 1 front
- Bolshevik gov. to take Russia out of WWI
- Russian Civil War
- Allied countries all sent help to the enemies of the Bolsheviks
- Appeasement
- USSR suspicious of Britain's policy of appeasement towards Germany
- Turns Hitler's way to the USSR and away from the West?
- Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggressive pact (Aug. 1939)
- Limited the threat of a German invasion on SU
- Gave Stalin time to preparefor a war he thoughts inevitable
- B & F condemned his action although appeasement pushedStalin to this
- Bolshevik execution of the Romanov
- Soviet failure to honour debt
- Owed to the West = tension in international tensions
- Ideologicaldifferences
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