The Truman Doctrine, The Marshall Plan and Stalin's Response - Superpower Relations GCSE History

Following Stalin's expansion into Europe after WW2, tensions began to rise between the superpowers. The US President Truman, gave a speech in which he outlined his 'doctrine' of preventing the spread of communism. Then the Marshall Plan was set up to support the doctrine. Stalin responded by setting up similar organisations.

This video covers the Edexcel GCSE History syllabus for Superpower Relations and the Cold War 1941-91. It will be useful no matter which exam board you are studying though.

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Chapters:
00:30 Recap
00:47 Reasons for The Truman Doctrine
01:12 The Truman Doctrine
02:05 The Marshall Plan
02:57 Direct consequences of the Marshall Plan
03:33 Cominform
04:28 Comecon
05:05 Consequence

[lcfcsince]

Hello again! Haven't seen you in a while after finishing history GCSE, glad to see you still uploading
I achieved an 8 thanks to your help, hopefully those who do Edexcel history will benefit too 😄

[puddingcarl]

these videos are going to carry my gcses

edit: i ended up with a 6 which is much higher than i thought i was going to get

[missy-kpopfan]

im watching this cause my teacher sent one of your videos and now im here watching all 8 and i have to say thank you so much i learned a lot wish me luck cause i have an exam tomorrow .

[delphihicks]

thank you for this!! it was really helpful

[itzflynn-brawlstars]

2:12 Could you check to see if the $17 billion figure is correct? I do history GCSE and I was told it was $12.7 billion. Other sources, though, state it was around $13-$15 billion. "Congress overwhelmingly passed the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948, and on April 3, 1948, President Truman signed the act that became known as the Marshall Plan. Over the next four years, Congress appropriated $13.3 billion for European recovery." - US National Archives

[ραηαν-νν]

Hey! Firstly thanks a lot for these videos, they are very helpful.

I had a question at 4:19- How was France included in Cominform?
- I thought France with ally of US and Britain
- France gained $2.7 billion from Marshall Plan in agreement for trading with US but how could they do so with being in Cominform?

[laylabell]

I have been taught that the Marshall plan gave $13 billion in aid so I was wondering which figure is correct. 13 or 17 billion?

[lesovian]

Hey, I was wondering if you will do a-level history videos :))

[izzygrover]

Why was Comecon not that successful? Thanks for the great video

[yahooo]

what exactly is the truman doctrine- is it just the containment policies and that truman was against capitalism, or is it something more specific?