1947 - TD & MP

    But:

    • Yugoslavia aiding Greece communists against SU advice
    • SU no real threats to Turkey

    Foreign ministers’ conference in Moscow

    • Stalin’s conciliatory note

    Foreign ministers’ conference in Paris

    • to discuss the Marshall plan
    • SU & Molotov to try oppose German membership of the Marshall Plan
      • or else = Germany away from the ACC
    • Czechoslovakia & Finland not allowed to participate
      • though technically not belonging to SU influence

    Marshall Plan

    • clung eastern Europe closer to the SU
      • need to rely on SU
    • US overestmination of communist influence in Europe + underestimation in Asia

    1947 National Security Act

    • US
    • rise to the National Security Council to advise the president
    • the CIA

    1947 Information Committee (KI)

    • SU