HST 604 Lecture 8: HST604 Module 8
5 May 2020
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Thefoundation of a new europe jeanmoret 3 robert schuman fear in washington that all europe would fall undercommunism appealed to those whothoughtliberaldemocracy failedto preventwwii. Truman decided to unify 3 westernzones in germany into 1country. Washingtonrealized economicrecovery was beststrategyto contain communism in europe strung poor made themmorelikely tofall to communists. Marshall plan had a focus on rebuilding federal republicof. Germany frg into a democratic cprosperous state avoid history repeating itself. 0 west germany"sfirst chancellor ledfor14years were fears germany nationalism militarism remainedfresh. European coal steel community ecsc director jean monnet. 0 pooling coal 4steel made wer btwstiles impossible to 1st step toward integration of european community french foreign minister robert schuman. April 1951 treaty of paris marked birth of ecsc p y comprised of belgium germany luxemburg west germany. Pleven plan to objective to create a european defensecommunity which would eventually control multinational european army abandoned in 1953 i threat of soviet interventoreweakened after aceasefire inkorea.
