Bloc mentality Flashcards
Iron curtian speech
Iron curtain speech 5th march 1946 – at west minister college Fulton – outlines ‘special relationship of usa/uk , and clear bloc mentality, and Brussles Pact March 17th 1948 – in response to seizure of Czechslovakia – obstenibley againt Germany to ease French anxieties, really against ussr
Schuman
1950 – intergrates cold and steel production – Develops into ESCS in 1952 – means countires have role in fRGS industry , outlines basis of EU
Brussels Pact
March 17th 1948
in response to seizure of Czechslovakia – obstenibley againt Germany to ease French anxieties, really against ussr
Develops into nato may 4th 1949
NATO
4 April 1949 -formed as collective security against ussr after blockade of germany
Cominform
October 5th 1949
Made in response to marshall plan
Centralise parties but minimal influence
Develops cult of stalin
See cult of stalin – statues; Prague, Bucharest, Budapest
Volograd – renamed Stalingrad – writes ‘short cause of communist revolution propganda’
Comecon
Jan 5th 1949
EDC
Signed in May 1952 by French chancellor and Adaneur, ratified march 1953, but declined by French national assembly in august of 1954
west Germany join Nato
May 5th 1955
Form Warsaw Pact
May 15th 1955
TREATY OF Rome
25th march 1957
-consuqence of USA’s faliure to help Hungary
-Forms the EEC
SPLITS IN NATO
Ultimatum - nov 10th 1958 - shows west are willing to make concessions
Vietnam war tense
France
-1963- rejects west berlin’s entry to the EEC because it is too American
1965 – aims to remove dollar from currency reserves to devalue it
1966 – France leaves nato. Natos hq was in Paris
Visits USSR- voices how Europeans should free themselves from western block
1967 – hamel report by Belgian foreign ministers- presents the should pursue détente with Warsaw pact countrie
