Cold war part 2 revision
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- Created on: 19-01-19 16:26
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- Development of the cold war
- The Truman Doctrine and Marshall plan
- The USA was certain that the USSR aimed to spread communism in Europe
- President Truman announced on the 12th March 1947 that the USA would provide $400m to Greece and Turkey to prevent them from falling to communism
- Announced the Truman doctrine which replaced the isolationist policies with a new containment policy which aimed to limit the spread of communism outside a small number of countries
- The Marshal plan was a direct result of the Truman Doctrine
- George Marshall visited Europe and calculated that it would cost $17billion to rebuild out of poverty and destruction
- Would increase possibility trade with Europe as well as ensuring that no more countries fell to communism
- Stalin accused the USA of trying to establish an empire in Europe
- The USA was certain that the USSR aimed to spread communism in Europe
- Berlin division
- Berlin split into 3 zones
- France
- Merged their zones and improved quality of life for citizens
- Britain
- USA
- Trizonia
- Merged their zones and improved quality of life for citizens
- Britain
- USA
- USSR
- Improvements to West Germany made communism look bad
- France
- Berlin split into 3 zones
- The Berlin Crisis
- Stalin felt threatened by the formation of Trizonia and started the Berlin Blockade to secure communism in Berlin
- Airlift
- Planes landed every 3 minutes in West Berlin dropping off supplies
- The allies refused to loose Berlin to communism
- If they gave up on Berlin it would be going against "containment" stated in the Truman doctrine
- led to the formation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact
- Cominform (1947) and Comecon (1949)
- Cominform - Communist information Bureau (1947)
- Consisting of 9 countries, this gave Stalin complete control over the satellite states
- Countries took orders directly from Moscow
- Rejected the Marshall plan
- Propaganda began to spread claiming that America was no different from Nazi Germany
- Consisting of 9 countries, this gave Stalin complete control over the satellite states
- Comecon - Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (1949)
- Stalin offered a positive alternative to the Marshall plan which secured the loyalty and his control of the satellite state
- Actions increased tensions and led to the formation of NATO
- Discouraged trade with West
- Cominform - Communist information Bureau (1947)
- The Truman Doctrine and Marshall plan
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