Chapter 3- Cold War

Question 1

When and what was the Marshall plan

Answer 1

1947 at Harvard university
The Marshall plan, developed by Marshall and Clayton, made US tax payers fund European countries 13.5 billion between 1947-1952 to help against countries who needed help from communism

Question 2

What was Comecon and when

Answer 2

Set up in 1949
Similar to cominform,Aimed to coordinate economies of communist countries

Question 3

Explain the Czechoslovakian crisis ands when was it

Answer 3

Began in 1948
The czechoslovakians wanted to take Marshall aid, the Soviets threatened them and pushed yan Masaryk out of window, this led to a communist coup in Czechoslovakia