1947-49 - Satellite states, doctrine, comecon

• Soviet Satellite states


  -Made to keep a barrier between Germany + USSR

  -Showed power and strength

  -Increased area of communist influence
• Soviet Satellite states - members

  -East Germany

  -Poland - 1947 - communist gov

  -Czech - 1948 - communist gov

  -Hungary - 1949

  -Romania - voted communist
• Comecon and Cominform


  -Stalin was very suspicious of USA and wanted to seek revenge
• Cominform - 1947


  -Orders given by Stalin in USSR, followed in every other Eastern Europe county

  -Each one would have a Cominform office
• Comecon - 1949


  -made sure no Eastern Europe countries took money from USA

  -trade only between communist countries

  -Communist parties took over all industries

  -Stalins answer to the marshall plan