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| Front | The Marshall Plan, 1947 |
| Back | - About 13 Billion dollars from USA to help rebuild Europe - Communism appealed most to people with nothing to lost so the Plan hoped to stop communism by giving people a stake in the capitalist system - Countries must trade with the USA to receive the money - 16 Western countries took the money - Soviets criticised and said it was dollar imperialism, using money to gain influence over Europe. |
| Front | Geneva Summit Nov 1985 |
| Back | No formal agreements made but they established a good working relationship had a mutual desire to improve relations |
| Front | Effect of the Bay of Pigs incident on international relations |
| Back | humiliating and embarassing failure for the US it looked like America was trying to restore influence like the Soviets did in Hungary, which accused them of hypocrisy The little support by the ordinary people showed the popularity of communism and that people were happy Led to stronger relations between Cuba and the Soviets as Castro declared himself as communist and asked Khrushchev to provide support for future attacks from the USKennedy was concerned that Khrushchev would place nuclear weapons in Cuba to pose a direct threat to the US |