HIS 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Warsaw Pact, Military Alliance, Berlin Blockade
13 Sep 2016
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World changes after wwii: europe not as important after the war, loses its centrality politically, economically, etc, main focus becomes cold war between americans/soviet union. Soviet/american rivalry: begins before end of wwii, potsdam conference july-august 1945. What europe will look like after the war. Temporary measure, important to make sure germans were being looked after . Resolve what is wrong with the germans . Poland becomes communist after wwii: other countries follow suit. The marshall plan (1947-1951: americans terrified that so many european countries have gone communist, their plan is to economically support the rest of europe. The berlin blockade (june 1948-may 1949: standoff around berlin, berlin lies deep in the soviet zone of germany, only three ways of getting there, soviet union says all terrestrial routes to west berlin are closed off for. Repairs": americans and british had started talking about joining their two zones and creating west germany .
