The Marshall Plan and the Division of Europe Charles S. Maier Michael Cox and Caroline Kennedy-Pipe provide a valuable survey of much of the historiography of the Marshall Plan‚ rightly understood to be a centerpiece of the early Cold War. Their essay raises important questions about post-revisionist accounts and interpretations and makes a useful contribution in discussing the role of the British and French in the events of 1947—a role that the American literature long overlooked but that
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influence in Eastern Europe and his actions in Poland. Kolko argues that the West failing to open a Second front would have raised questions in the Kremlin about ‘the ultimate value and reliability of the coalition’ between the West and Russia. The Soviets were fighting against Germany alone on the Eastern front and it appeared ‘the West was making politics while Russia made war’ so Russia wanted the West to open a second front to show more commitment and relieve Russia’s strain over the Eastern Front
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capital‚ Berlin. Notwithstanding‚ Berlin was inside the control region of USSR; this situation implicated the potential crisis later. As Berlin located inside Eastern Germany‚ where under USSR’s control‚ it allowed the US‚ Britain and Frances to enter the USSR’s control area. It implies that‚ although the USSR had spread its power to the Eastern Germany‚ it did not mean that USSR would have a
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After World War II‚ the Allied countries were all the countries where the now-defunct Axis countries used to have influence. When the war ended‚ the Allied countries immediately occupied the Axis countries just to be more careful. They did not want another war like World War II to occur. Because of this‚ the Allied countries immediately split Germany into four sections‚ and each one occupied by a major Allied power. The Allied occupation of Germany affects us today because it led to another war-
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beginning the Berlin Wall‚ Churchill coined the term “Iron Curtain”. Many people assumed that Churchill was referring directly to the Berlin Wall‚ but in truth he was really talking about the general closing off of the soviet satellite countries in Eastern Europe. Even though the wall was not built till 1961‚ Berlin was an enduring symbol of that “Iron Curtain.” To get an understanding for the reason it was constructed‚ all the headaches‚ heartaches it caused‚ and the joy over its falling helps people
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Should the NATO exist? From the early 1949-ties when NATO started the existence till the end of the Cold War there was no doubt about NATO necessity. The entire world was living of new war fair between western countries and the Soviet Union. Western countries were convinced about the western countries necessity to have NATO alliance as sustainable power of Soviet Union. But the Cold War ended after collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. And on the same day NATO faced with the question – what is the
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In one of the most prominent speech of the Cold War era‚ Ex British Prime Minister Winston Churchill blame the Soviet Union’s policies in Europe and states‚ “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic‚ an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” Churchill’s speech is measured one of the gap volleys reporting the starting of the cold war.(6) Churchill‚ who had been overcome for re-election as prime minister in 1945‚ was invited to Westminster College in Missouri‚ Fulton‚ where
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urged for a sphere of political influence in Eastern and Central Europe. He also wanted the Polish land they had lost during the Russo-Japanese war (Kent & Stettinius 403). In concern to the USSR‚ Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States pushed for the Soviet Union to declare war on Japan and to join the United Nations (Leahy 70). In addition‚ the prime minister Great Britain‚ Winston Churchill‚ pushed for free elections and democratic governments in Eastern and Central Europe (The Yalta Conference
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Essentially‚ the wall sealed off eastern Germans within their country. Thru out the decades after the initial construction‚ the wall was improved and upgraded to the point of being a deadly‚ airtight monument to oppression. West Germany‚ with a social market economy and the backing of the
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governed between 1949 and 1989 by the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and his leader‚ who was also the head of the state. Despite the economic sanctions imposed by the Soviet Union‚ the GDR was the most economically developed country of the Communist bloc‚ and his economic status was higher than many developed countries. However‚ constantly suffered shortages of foreign exchange and‚ in part‚ its economy were the reflection of an emergency situation. The economic system that prevailed was the Five Year
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