Soviet Bloc nations did not receive any economic aid.
Because those countries that accepted it could recover from the ruins quickly, while the socialist countries that were controlled by the Soviet Union (i.e. they were prohibited to accept,=had to refuse) were almost starving and it took them decades to recover from the war destruction.
Capitalism
The main confrontation was the fact that the United States and the Soviet Union had such drastically different political and economic ideologies. The Cold War was the MAIN conflict, however, the Cold War in general can be very vague. More specifically, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
Communism & Democracy
Their satellite states.
Soviet Bloc nations did not receive any economic aid.
Soviet Bloc nations did not receive any economic aid.
Soviet Bloc nations did not receive any economic aid.
Because those countries that accepted it could recover from the ruins quickly, while the socialist countries that were controlled by the Soviet Union (i.e. they were prohibited to accept,=had to refuse) were almost starving and it took them decades to recover from the war destruction.
Because those countries that accepted it could recover from the ruins quickly, while the socialist countries that were controlled by the Soviet Union (i.e. they were prohibited to accept,=had to refuse) were almost starving and it took them decades to recover from the war destruction.
Because those countries that accepted it could recover from the ruins quickly, while the socialist countries that were controlled by the Soviet Union (i.e. they were prohibited to accept,=had to refuse) were almost starving and it took them decades to recover from the war destruction.
The Marshall Plan
Cold War.
1. Truman Doctrine (from USA) 2. Marshall Plan (from USA) 3. Molotov Plan (from USSR after they rejected Marshall Plan)
Marshall Plan.
Politically, the Marshall Plan reduced the influence and power of Communist parties in Western Europe. This angered the Soviet Union and was seen as another anti-communist move by the USA, following the Truman Doctrine. Both these acts drove the divide between East and West even deeper and convinced the world that a new political conflict, between the Soviet Union and the West, had begun. The Marshall Plan caused the Cold War to become a reality in the lives of the people of the countries involved.
Cold war was a war of threats, politics between democratic west and communist east. It was caused by the end of WWII with the emergence of two super powers America and the USSR, and their opposing ideologies. It was called a cold war because there were no occasions of direct armed conflict between the super powers.