What did Britain and America have?
A ‘special relationship’
What 2 US officials reported on a desperate state in Europe in May 1947?
Kennan and Clayton
When and where was the Marshall plan unveiled?
Harvard University in June 1947
When was the Marshall plan launched and how much aid did it give to how many countries?
April 1948 and was 13.5 billion to 16 different countries
How many French communists were they by 1947?
1.7 million
What happened at the Paris Peace conference?
USSR walked out over the Marshall plan
What was the Czechoslovakia crisis?
originally said yes to the Marshall plan but then rejected it after Stalin gave them an ultimatum.
Masaryk the foreign minister said he left as a free state and came back as a minister of a slave state
When was Comecon introduced?
January 1949
Why was Masaryks funeral seen as symbolic?
Last moment Czechoslovakia was seen as a free country