Economy Essay 1917-91
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- Economic considerations 1917-91
- 1917-21
- The USSR
- -Comintern, Treaty of BL, Civil War, Russo-Polish war
- Switch to NEP in domestic policy
- The West
- Civil War
- The USSR
- 1921-24
- The USSR
- Anglo-Soviet 1921 Trade Agreement, Treaty of Rapallo
- The West
- Isolationism, failure of Genoa World Economic Conference 1922
- Anglo-Soviet treaty
- The USSR
- 1924-28
- The West
- Dawes Plan, Treaty of Locarno
- Germany LoN, Zinoviev letter
- The West
- 1933-39
- USSR
- Spanish CIvil War (500 mil dollars gained), Nazi-Soviet Pact
- LoN, 'popular fronts 'collective security, NS PAct
- West
- Abyssinian Conflict, Civil War, appeasement
- Munich Conference 1938
- USSR
- 1939-1945
- USSR
- Peaceful interlude
- Grand Alliance: Both sides searched for security
- USSR
- 1945-47
- West
- Containment, Kennan's Long Telegram, Marshall Aid, Berlin Airlift
- Marshall Aid: Hoped to gain from Europe financially
- USSR
- Takeover of East Europe, crushing of Germany
- Buffer zone,, rejection of Marshall Aid, Cominform, Berlin crisis Stalin note
- West
- 1956-64
- USSR
- Berlin wall, East Europe, Pearson: "Military stick to economic carrot"
- Hungary and Poland
- West
- 'roll back' on communism, Germany in NATO
- Lack of aid to Poland/ Hungary, arms race
- USSR
- 1964-79
- USSR
- Detente: SALT lessened arms race increase in trade: $220mil-2.8bil '71-78
- Ostpolitik, Helsinki Accords
- West
- Vietnam and recession brought Detente
- USSR
- 1979-85
- USSR
- Afghanistan
- West
- Breakdown of Detente due to Afghanistan
- Reagan's 'Evil Empire', rise in military budget (43% higher than Vietnam '89), SDI
- USSR
- 1985-91
- USSR
- World Rev halted, '87 arms race end, Sinatra Doctrine saved $40 bil, perestroika and glasnost
- '89: Cold War over
- West
- Unified Germany: Looked for trade
- USSR
- 1917-21
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