A S L 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Marshall Plan, Merger Treaty, European Central Bank
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Resulted from transformations of earlier organization for european cooperation. Outflow of a series of events that was initiated by the second world war. Cooperation in europe as a means to lessen the chance of another war breaking out in. 1948: the organisation for european economic cooperation (oeec) was established to administer the marshall plan (us plan that provided financial support to western european countries to get their economies up and running again) Warsaw pact vs. nato: western countries gathered against the threat of the sovjet union in the. North atlantic treaty organization (nato, 1949) , as reaction to this the eastern european countries joined together in the warsaw pact under the guidance of the soviet union (1955) Council of europe: established in 1949, most famous achievement: european convention on human rights (1950) Shuman initiative: 1950 led to creation of the european coal and steel community (ecsc) (1951)
