Evidence for a Thaw? Part 1

AUSTRIAN STATE TREATY:

• in 1945, Austria had been dealth with by arrangements similar to Germany and Berlin; divided into zones of occupation
• it was likely to become a permanent arrangement
• negotiations in the long term future of Austria stopped as common ground was difficult to find
• the USSR used their zone as economic benefit for themselves
• the US brought in Marshall Aid and rearmed the Western zone secretly
• by 1955, Khrushchev was in a position to override the harsher approach of Molotov and decided Austrian neutrality was better than permanent division
• he hoped Soviet concessions would convince the West that the USSR was serious about negotiating matters
• the Austrian State Treay of 1955 was the results
• under the Treaty, both US and USSR would withdraw its troops from Austria in return for agreeing its neutrality
• Khrushchev regarded the Treaty as a more mature approach

SOVIET WITHDRAWL FROM FINLAND, 1956:

•  the USSR had an interest in Finland, its neighbour and enemy during the Second Wolrd War
• under the Finish-Soviet Peace Treaty, signed Paris 1947, the terms of the armistice…