cominform & comecon
Cards (5)
- | cominform, 22 september 1947
- 9 members: USSR, bulgaria, czech, hungary, poland, romania & yugoslavia
- yugoslavia expulsion in june 1948 & hq moved to romania
- new body gave stalin way of controlling governments of satellite states; ensure they follow communism & orders
- encouraged to trade with other cominform members & contact with non-communists was discouraged
- | comecon, 25 january 1949
- would not let satellites accept marshall aid
- direct composition with marshall plan
- arranged trade between member countries
- after 1953, tried to organise industrial planning across all satellite states
- each state had a 5 year plan
- stalin formed cominform & comecon in response to the threat he believed the marshall plan posed to the USSR
- however his actions increased tension & played a significant part in the USA & western europe countries creating a new military alliance- NATO in april 1949
- what was comeconeconomic organisation
- when was Comecon formed25 January 1949