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- Soviets go on to mobilize criticism of Marshall Plan, create "Cominform" and tighten grip of Eastern Europe - Soviets go on to mobilize criticism of Marshall Plan, create "Cominform" and tighten grip of Eastern Europe
## Key Points ## Key Points
- Stalin's foreign policy - complex, driven by desire for security but also to enhance Soviet influence. - Stalin's foreign policy - complex, driven by desire for security but also to enhance Soviet influence.
- Willing to work with wartime allances but within limits - by 1947 those limits are breached. Historians debate if he was actually truthful about this willingness - Willing to work with wartime alliances but within limits - by 1947 those limits are breached. Historians debate if he was actually truthful about this willingness
- Role of shifting perceptions (in USSR and USA) - Role of shifting perceptions (in USSR and USA)
- Significance of ideology in shaping perceptions - Significance of ideology in shaping perceptions
- Significance of advisors, role of other states - Significance of advisors, role of other states
# Global Competition
- Cold War - an increasingly global confrontation
- Europe divided into "blocs" by the "Iron Curtain"
- Communists take power in China, war in Korea
- Nikita Khrushchev - Seeks to enhance soviet unions international influence, compete with USA - period of tensions and crises
## Stalin, Europe and Asia
### Europe Divided
- After rejecting the Marshall plan, soviet control in eastern Europe tightens further
- Germany divided: Western zones combined into west Germany, soviet zone become eastern Germany (1949). Berlin a divided city, tension point
- NATO established 1949, Warsaw Pact 1955
### Communism in China
- Long complex power struggle between Chinese Communist (CCP), led by Mao Zedong, and Chinese Nationalists, led by Chiang Kai-shek
- Civil War (1946-49): Communists win control of the mainland, establish Peoples' Republic (PRC) in 1949
- Mao and Stalin sign treaty of alliance in 1950, but China is "junior partner" in Soviet opinion; the two countries eventually become rivals