HIST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bretton Woods Conference, Global Field, Marshall Plan
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Wartime alliance: (cid:498)marriage of convenience(cid:499) and (cid:498)permanent mutual suspicion(cid:499) War(cid:495)s end: military (cid:498)facts on the ground(cid:499) U. s. designs (bretton woods, world bank, imf) The countries that were involved had different interests and how the world should look like post wwii. As the world largest imperial power, britain was determined to keep its overseas power. They wanted to maintain they large closed trading block between britain and its colonies. The us on the other hand, determined to break up those old colonial trading blocks in order to open up the word to us multinational companies, the americans had the upper hand, the europe countries badly needed assistance. 1945 the us was the one that gave the assistance (cid:523)(cid:494)marshall plan(cid:495) and other forms of assistance(cid:524) Indonesia oil under the dutch (cid:523)(cid:498)shell(cid:499)(cid:524), us wanted access to withdraw its military. 1944 before the end of the war, us was already planning, had a conference in new.
