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The Cold War (Bipolar World/Post WW2 (Yalta Conference 1945 (do not…
The Cold War
Bipolar World/Post WW2
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USSR (militarility, strongest on European continent 363) and US (economic) as global powers
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Yalta Conference 1945
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friendly/secure borders, eastern front would follow Curzon line
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Although the SU supports dismemberment, Germany is divided into an Eastern and Western zone
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American stance
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Marshall Plan 1947
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rejected by USSR, results in Cominform (Communist Information Bureau)
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feared the spread of Soviet and Communist influence, was anxious about the rising forces of the Left including the Social Democrats and wanted to reintegrate as much of Europe as possible into a revived capitalist world economy which included dislodging the Soviet Union from Eastern Europe
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feared another depression, prosperity depended on world trade; peace and prosperity needed to go together; poverty and dissatisfaction would lead to war, revolution, and communism
"communist menace" = misreading of soviet intentions and overestimation of the USSR's military and economic capabilities (SU had steadily demobilized their vast wartime army from over 11 mil in 1945 to 2, 874, 000 in 1948 (373)
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