Truman Doctrine and Marshall aid
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- Truman Doctine and the Marshall Plan
- Truman Doctrine (1947)
- Proposes CONTAINMENT policy - Stop the spread of communism (Not get rid of it, only stop it spreading)
- Causes
- Soviet expansion across eastern Europe
- Roosevelt dies - Truman becomes President
- Truman more concerned about communism than Roosevelt
- Effects
- Worsens tensions between superpowers
- Capitalism wanting to contain communism. Opposing ideologies
- Worsens tensions between superpowers
- Suggested there could be no cooperation between East and West due to ideological differences
- Caused Tensions
- Marshall Plan proposed: 1947 Aproved:1948
- Send Marshall aid
- Suggested $17 billion was needed to rebuild Europe's prosperity
- All countries damaged by war and threatened by communism offered aid. Aid included money, food resources etc. in return European countries would buy US goods and invest in US companies
- Prevent communists taking advantage of war damaged countries, and giving them support in return for communist rule
- Marshall aid and reconstruction would weaken the attraction of communism
- Prevent communists taking advantage of war damaged countries, and giving them support in return for communist rule
- Countries of Europe owed USA $11.5 billion in war debts
- Send Marshall aid
- IRON CURTAIN
- Contained satalite states eg. Romania, Bulgaria, Poland
- Communist control increases
- Rigged elections
- Allowed communists to make laws and control police and army
- eg. Poland and Czechoslovakia -1947
- Allowed communists to make laws and control police and army
- Forcing opposition leaders into exile. eg. Stanislaw Milokajeyk (fled to London)
- Control Police and Army
- Propanganda
- Murdering/ eliminating key political opponents
- 1947- Romanian monarchy abolished
- Hanged Nikola Petkov (Bulgaria)
- Foreign secratary Jan Masaryk
- Rigged elections
- Divide between soviet control and the rest of Europe
- STOP
- Truman Doctine and the Marshall Plan
- Truman Doctrine (1947)
- Proposes CONTAINMENT policy - Stop the spread of communism (Not get rid of it, only stop it spreading)
- Causes
- Soviet expansion across eastern Europe
- Roosevelt dies - Truman becomes President
- Truman more concerned about communism than Roosevelt
- Effects
- Worsens tensions between superpowers
- Capitalism wanting to contain communism. Opposing ideologies
- Worsens tensions between superpowers
- Suggested there could be no cooperation between East and West due to ideological differences
- Caused Tensions
- Marshall Plan proposed: 1947 Aproved:1948
- Send Marshall aid
- Suggested $17 billion was needed to rebuild Europe's prosperity
- All countries damaged by war and threatened by communism offered aid. Aid included money, food resources etc. in return European countries would buy US goods and invest in US companies
- Prevent communists taking advantage of war damaged countries, and giving them support in return for communist rule
- Marshall aid and reconstruction would weaken the attraction of communism
- Prevent communists taking advantage of war damaged countries, and giving them support in return for communist rule
- Countries of Europe owed USA $11.5 billion in war debts
- Send Marshall aid
- IRON CURTAIN
- Contained satalite states eg. Romania, Bulgaria, Poland
- Communist control increases
- Rigged elections
- Allowed communists to make laws and control police and army
- eg. Poland and Czechoslovakia -1947
- Allowed communists to make laws and control police and army
- Forcing opposition leaders into exile. eg. Stanislaw Milokajeyk (fled to London)
- Control Police and Army
- Propanganda
- Murdering/ eliminating key political opponents
- 1947- Romanian monarchy abolished
- Hanged Nikola Petkov (Bulgaria)
- Foreign secratary Jan Masaryk
- Rigged elections
- Divide between soviet control and the rest of Europe
- STOP
- Cominform and Comecon oppsed the TD and MP causing tensions
- Stalin told E Europe satalite states to refuse aid and use C and C
- TD=Idea MA=Execution
- Truman Doctrine (1947)
- Truman Doctine and the Marshall Plan
- Cominform and Comecon oppsed the TD and MP causing tensions
- Stalin told E Europe satalite states to refuse aid and use C and C
- TD=Idea MA=Execution
- Truman Doctrine (1947)
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