Marshall Aid and the Soviet Response
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- Created on: 19-03-16 19:43
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- The Marshall Plan, Cominform, the Zhdanov Doctrine and Comecon
- Cominform (Communist Information Bureau)
- Set up in 1947 by Zhdanov
- Aimed to coordinate European communist parties
- Controlled by Moscow. Highly anti-American
- Comecon (Communist Economy)
- Established in 1949
- Controlled by the USSR
- Aimed to coordinate the economies of communist countries
- Stalinist state-controlled economies imposed in Eastern Europe
- The aid given was two-way
- The Marshall Plan
- Formulated by George Marshall in 1947
- The 'other half' of the Truman Doctrine
- Aimed to rebuild the European economy
- Offered to European countries with conditions
- The USA received the recipients economic information
- The USA became one of the recipients trading partners
- Sixteen countries accepted the aid
- The USSR was offered Marshall Aid at face value
- Marshall Aid was the catalyst for the Czechoslovakian Crisis
- The Zhdanov Doctrine
- Zhdanov was a hardline Stalinist
- He believed in the European division
- Stated that the West was becoming economically dependent on the USA
- Accused the USA of purposefully creating an anti-Soviet sphere of influence
- Cominform (Communist Information Bureau)
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