satellite states and marshal plan
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- Created on: 16-09-18 08:13
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- The Marshall Plan 1947 Financial package that supported the Truman Doctrine
- $13 billion of US money was used to help rebuild Europe after WW2
- Designed to weaken the appeal of communism
- Countries taking the trade would agree to trade freely with the USA - boosts US economy
- Many countries were keen to accept the offer of financial assistance
- However Stalin saw it as the beginning of an anti Soviet alliance and banned any country under the soviet influence
- In total 16 countries accepted the Marshall Aid
- Satellite states
- Country that is officially independent but is really controlled by another country.
- Stalin created hem to extend his control over Eastern Europe
- Czechoslovakia
- Hungary
- Poland
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