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Mind Map by amyrowland1, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by amyrowland1
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How Did the USA Influence Events in
Germany 1945-1949
- 1947 - Announced the
Marshall plan, to give
Marshall Aid to complying
countries, such as their zone
of Germany
- June 1948 - Currency
reform. Vital for
German economy to
revivie.
- September 1946 -
Stuggart Speech. The first
official signal that the
punitive approach to post
war Germany had been
dropped
- 1947 - The cold war
became public when
Truman released the
Truman Doctrine
- By the summer of 1948,
the currency reform and
the Berlin Blockade were
in full effect, the division
of Germany appeared
more or less a fait
accompli
- April 1946, amidst growing
fears about soviet intentions,
the British Foreign office
decided that the West
German lander would have
to be strengthened and
made able to resist any
communist dominated
central government
- France joined Bizonia in
the spring of 1948 when
American bribed them
with marshall Aid. Making
Bizonia, Trizonia
- September 1945 -
Permitted licenses to
form political parties
to participate in local
elections
- As a result of the
merging political parties,
by the spring of 1946,
local governments on the
western zones had been
elected by Germans and
were working with the
allies with the aim of
reconstructing Germany
- The Western allies were
less thorough than the
Soviets at ridding their
zones of Nazi influence so
going back on former
agreements
- The decision to create
an independent West
Germany at the
London Conference
June 1948.
- The USA refused to hand
over German reparation
payments to the USSR
from May 1946.
- France did not want a united Germany
and the USA and Britain only wanted it
on their own terms
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