Author : G. Bischof
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230372313
Austria in the First Cold War, 1945-55 by G. Bischof Pdf
At the height of the first Cold War in the early 1950s, the Western powers worried that occupied Austria might become 'Europe's Korea' and feared a Communist takeover. The Soviets exploited their occupation zone for maximum reparations. American economic aid guaranteed Austria's survival and economic reconstruction. Their military assistance turned Austria into a 'secret ally' of the West. Austrian diplomacy played a vital role in securing the Austrian treaty in bilateral negotiations with Stalin's successors in the Kremlin demonstrating the leverage of the weak in the Cold War.