... Adenauer government used EEC as a forum for creation of a European power policy with the aim of establishing European political union. West German diplomacy tried to balance national interests in Western Europe. Germany, in particular, Chancellor Adenauer always hoped to reduce the Franco-British as well as the European-American tensions, knowing that he never could commit himself to one side ... coal exports, but Americans and British refused to enter into any real negotiations. The foundation of the EEC was regarded a clear sign of the new balance of power in Western Europe, with Fran...

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... and required the European market. With the Soviet expansion in Eastern Europe the US might loose the market. Therefore, the United States sought free flow of capital and the "open door" economy. The communist ideology and the western reaction to it had not changed by the end of the World ... War II. Americans still believed that the Soviet Union was out for world domination, as she attempted to expand outside of Eastern Europe. This contributed to shaping the policy of ... The bitter struggle for survival of the Soviet Union in its early stage, in particular the Civil War was hindered ...

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... Russia within the framework of the United Nations. Furthermore there were three specific policies according to which the peaceful reorganization of Europe was to proceed: friendship with Russia, hostility to Germany, and restoration of the pre-war nation-state system. Did Western diplomacy take for granted that these would be the principles of European peacemaking? As far as Soviet Russia goes, if ... would be sorely needed to defeat the Japanese in the Pacific and Manchuria. In any case, the Soviet Union was the military occupier of Eastern Europe at the war's end, and so there was lit...

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... allies, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain and President Franklin Roosevelt of the United States. After Germany fell, he used Red Army troops to forcibly install Communist governments in Eastern Europe and further his country's interests around the world. Meanwhile, he launched a new wave of repression in the Soviet Union. By 1949, Soviet scientists had exploded an atomic bomb, ... World War II In a sense, the Nazi-Soviet Pact was a brilliant move on Stalin's part, since it gave him an opportunity to drastically improve his country's strategic position along its western border, ...

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... like to discuss the objectives and successfulness of these two strategies. George Kennan recommended the Marshall Plan to shore up economic weaknesses in western European nations devastated by World War II. Kennan felt that such a program would help restore Europe's self-confidence, and in turn, provide an incentive to back the US as an ally in the inevitable containment struggle with the ... , citing that America should not help nations that cannot help themselves. He felt that a balance of power was in order, not an American overpowering. However, if the plan were successful, Western E...

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... US - USSR relationship. If we have a look at the actual events of the World War Two, we will see that the failure of the western allies to open the second front in 1942, despite the previous agreements on that issue, has cost great losses to Russia in peoples" lives and destroyed ... left the USSR no possibility of peaceful cooperation with the Americans. Considering the American position, the war itself has upset the balance of power in Europe and Asia, has eliminated the protection of oceans and distance by advances in air transportations and weaponry. That meant that the US could not...

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... sides for world domination and the opposing ideals of communism and capitalism. On one side, Stalin sought to spread his influence in Eastern Europe by setting up pro-Russian governments in these states while America, feared for their power and domination over the world and attempted to "contain ... was to blame for the outbreak of this war that lasted for nearly five decades. It can be argued that Stalin's political incursions into Eastern Europe caused unnecessary conflict between Russia and the West. By 1948, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Albania and Yugoslavia a...

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... be known as the "Marshall Plan" or the "European Recovery Program" (ERP). A triumph in American foreign diplomacy, it was an agenda of economic aid spanning four years that would set Western Europe on the course of economic rehabilitation. Though his speech took on a sympathetic and benign tone , the motivations behind the 13 billion dollars that the United States funneled into the participating ... policy, and thus, the Marshall Plan was based. Additionally, by 1946 there is a great fear on the part of the Americans that hunger and poverty pervading Germany would indicate to Western Eu...

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... here "Soviet-communism" metamorphosing to create a domino effect inflicting other communist sovereignties with change. In November 1989, the East Germany government decided to undertake the most moving ceremony in Europe since 1945 by officially opening the Berlin wall. Lastly, Romanian revolt took a more violent course. After a clergyman attempted to defend the rights of ethnic Hungarians residing within Romanian borders ... ministries. The goal was to diminish them in size and steer activity towards the private enterprise on the local level. This is reminiscent of the capitalistic move...

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... emerged. They were people who accepted the fight to the cult of personality as the beginning of social regeneration. And one can see the increased influence of Western propaganda against the socialist countries of Europe. Authors of radio programs pointed out that the leaders of these countries had been put in power by Stalin, and behaviors, existing there, were not so different ... they glorified Stalin before, but now they began to accuse him of all "deadly sins." The mixed reaction of the international communist movement, disorders in the socialist countries of Europe, the events in ...

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... , at the end of World War II, the allied countries of Great Britain, The United States, and The Soviet Union had to decide how to map out the fate of Europe. The continent had seen the leaders of Germany, in the span of less than thirty years, twice embark on a conquest that brought the world into war. What manifested was an ... Bailey blamed the start of the Cold War on the USSR's resolution to pursue a path of expanding the ideas of communism and a essentially wanting a socialist revolution come alive throughout Eastern Europe and eventually the world. They pointed to evidence of the S...

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... of communism along the end of cold war with the view of economic factor. Nevertheless, the detected ideology of communism is explained as the main factor that led the Eastern Europe and Soviet Union to the collapse. Russian Historian, Vladimir Batyuk, describes how the Gorbachev reforms, and the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and Soviet Union, changed Moscow's view of ... Soviet people themselves. In the 1920s and 1930s, the West had been scared by Soviet Communist propaganda. In the 1980s, on the other hand, the Soviet authorities had to jam Western broadcasts in order to maintain contro...

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... ambition, to have power over half of the world and that was where all the confrontations began as the USSR was not willing to give into USA's domination of Eastern Europe and the USA was not willing to accept the spread USSR's communist power. Both the USA and the USSR wanted to control half of the world as both sides believed ... of the world. On the other hand, USSR accused the USA of practicing imperialism and for blocking the attempts of revolutionary actions. In addition, when USSR joined the USA and Western Europe against Germany it was believed that that was the end of their conf...

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... building there links with other communist countries. A further point for the relations between USA and USSR deteriorating was that at Yalta, they had all agreed on the fate of Eastern Europe in that countries which were under Nazi occupation would now belong to the Soviet 'sphere of influence' and they would have free elections as to which political parties would ... and America, France also joined there nation with there's to form Trizonia which further increased tension between the now West and East. In 1947, the allies released a new currency in Western Germany called the Duesch...

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... the figure of General Zhukov: given greater freedom for decision making, "the man who beat Hitler" proved to be a formidable tactician. Eisenhower described Zhukov's role as "crucial to victory in Europe." A "genius of strategy" his excellent tactical command repelled a Japanese incursion at Khalkhin-Gol, Mongolia. Japanese archives reveal that it was this crushing defeat that was instrumental in their decision not ... did not support German trucks designed for French roads. The sheer size of the Russian terrain created logistical problems, The Germans had hoped to transpose a successfu...

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... came crashing down? After World War II, Germany divided into four sections or zones. While this was meant to be a temporary move, the Cold War interceded and eventually the three western zones combined to form the Federal Republic of Germany while the eastern zone formed the German Democratic Republic. (Sandford) Berlin, the capital was also divided. The two areas of Germany ... economy prospered. Yet, on the other hand, East Germany, under communist rule suffered tremendous economic dismay, and it people were offered few liberties. During the 1980's, political changes in Eastern Europe...

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... Soviets than Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Truman believed Roosevelt was too soft with Stalin and that he did not stand up to the Soviets as much as Truman believed the Americans/Western Powers should have. Truman's outburst shocked and angered the Soviets, which contributed to increasing tensions between the Soviets and the Americans. Truman did not really want to deal with the ... not fulfilling America's expectations), particularly over the Soviet takeover of East European states, led Winston Churchill to warn in 1946 that an "iron curtain" was descending through the middle of Europe. A...

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