| What happened in most of the countries in Eastern Europe with the red army? | They stayed there after the elections when they weren't meant to and this meant that they had soviet control |
| Attitudes of Czechslovakia to Britain and France? | Upset over the Munich conferemnce |
| What happened in Czechoslovakia with the elections? | Communist party won 31% of the votes
Got control of key departmentas and allowed to arrest political opponents.
Drove remaining germans out fo the popoluations. |
| Who was Jan Masaryk and what happened to him? | Popular non-communist politician
Got mudered |
| What happened with the elections in Hungary ? | Communist only won 17% of votes in Nov 1945
Secret police killed all non-communists
1947 - rigged elections gave communist control and merged with the SDP and got power |
| What happened with elections in Poland? | Rigged elections, communists won 80% of votes but it was actually only 50%
Oppositions were mudered and arresested
Held important postitions of security, economy and education |
| What happened with elections in Romania? | Coalition goverment ormed in 1945
Riggeed elections in 1946, allowing the communists to win but they elimiated all opponents and the king was forced to abdicate. |
| What happened with teh elections in Bulgaria? | Coalition goveremnt
Governemnt purged anti-comunist rivals, monarchy was abolished in 46
new constituiton that was only communists |
| What happend in Yugoslavia? | Not part of the soviet empire
Leader Tito was communist so Stalin didn't invade and allowed the country to be independent communist state |
| What happened with Iran? | Soviet troops left beucase of teh United nations security concil that put pressure on them from the USA |
| What happened in Turkey ? | Stalin wanted a naval base there. Sent a ship to put pressure on government but saw that Britain and USA were supporting and reconsidered. |
