HST 296 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Treaty Establishing The European Defence Community, Georgy Malenkov, Nikita Khrushchev
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Intro: bipolarity and state building developed together as west and east both seeked to create strong buffer states. b. Although much of region was agrarian, eastern germany and czech land had strong industrial bases. b. ii. Culturally and religiously diverse, catholicism is dominant in western part of. Eastern europe, orthodoxy begins around halfway point of yugoslavia going eastward, and islam was still present in albania and bosnia. b. iii. Eastern europe significantly underdeveloped in comparison to west, largely due to keeping serfdom well into the mid-19th century c. Instability and conquest/liberation in 20th century due to wwii meant new regimes were radical before communists even gained power. c. i. Half of poland"s agricultural land changed hands c. ii. 1/3rd of hungary"s agricultural land changed hands c. iii. Polish and yugoslavic government took over 2/3rds of their countries combined industrial capacity (state was eager to nationalize and control industry in case of future conflict) c. iv.
