Cominform, Comecon and NATO
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- Cominform, Comecon and NATO
- Cominform
- Stood for Communist Information Bureau - set up in 1947
- Organised all communist parties in Europe and arranged their leadership
- Got rid of any opposition to the Soviet's control in satellite states
- Encouraged communist parties in Eastern Europe to block Marshall Plan assistance
- Comecon
- Stood for the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance - set up in 1949
- Soviet version of Marshall Plan
- Built up trade links between Comecon countries
- Prevented Comecon countries signing up to the Marshall Plan
- Comecon included the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Albania and from 1950, the German Democratic Republic (E. Germany)
- North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)
- Set up in 1949
- Military alliance made up of US, Britain, Canada, Holland, Belgium, France, Denmark, and Norway. W. Germany joined in 1955
- Based around the principle of collective security; if one country was attacked, other countries had to assist
- Directed against a possible attack from Soviet Union on Western Europe
- Significance of NATO
- Showed that neither the US not Western Europe were prepared to accept Soviet aggression
- Soviet Union therefore turned to strengthening control over Eastern Europe, resulting in formation of Warsaw Pact (1955)
- Now two military alliances (NATO and Warsaw pact) facing each other across the Iron Curtain
- Cominform
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