Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Truman Doctrine,
Marshall Plan,
Cominform and Comecon
- Truman Doctrine : 1947
- CAUSE
- Britain could no longer
afford to support Greece
- Truman provides
Greece with economic
and military support
- Truman was afraid
of further spread
of communism
- RESULT
- Greek gov was able to
defeat the communists
- Relations between
both sides worsened
- World divided into two sides
- USA became more involved in Britain
- WHAT IT WAS
- Policy of
containment
- To prevent Soviet expansion
- Offering of $400 Million of aid
- Marshall Plan : 1947
- CAUSE
- Truman did not want to use military
forces to prevent communism
- General George Marshall puts
forth the idea of the Marshall Plan
- After the reconstruction of European
economy, US exports would increase
- Very similar to the Truman Doctrine
- offered more money and more aid
- WHAT IT WAS
- Economical aid was
given to all war
torn countries
- Those that were
at risk of falling
to communism
- Agriculture and trade recovered
- Cash and technology/machinery given
- RESULT
- Stalin loses trust for USA
- Believes they are trying to create a
sphere of influence in Western Europe
- Refuses Eastern European
countries to accept the aid
being offered to them from USA
- Stalin accuses the plan as being
only beneficial for US exports
- By 1953 USA had handed out $17
Billion to poor European countries
- Cominform : 1947
- RESULT
- It benefited the USSR
- They were able to purge any member
who disagreed with soviet policies
- ie. Tito
- CAUSE
- A response to the
Truman Doctrine
- To organise Eastern
European communist
governments
- WHAT IT WAS
- It introduced
Soviet-style
policies
- ie. Collectivisation fo agriculture
and state control of industry
- Comecon : 1949
- CAUSE
- A response to the
Marshall Plan
- A policy where
USSR would
financially support
Eastern Europe
- WHAT IT WAS
- The financial support meant
that the countries that were being
"supported" relied on the USSR
- Would have to offer their
military services in exchange
and any agricultural produce
- RESULT
- It benefited the USSR
- They gained full economical
control of these countries
- Allowed them to
access resources
from these countries