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What Was the Marshall Plan? | History
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- for a world war 2 is over but Europe is in ruins what can a country like the United States do to help how about setting aside over 13 billion dollars to
- help rebuild the smoldering continent that's what the European a recovery plan aka the Marshall Plan sought to do restore the European economy by giving
- foreign aid to countries that needed it it was a brilliant move to win the piece by George C Marshall the plans creator Marshall had been a career military man
- and during the war had served as the Army's chief of staff he oversaw the US military strategy and was one of the key figures behind the Allied victory
- Marshall retired from the Army at the end of the war but President Truman valued his brains too much after serving as ambassador to China
- Marshall was appointed Secretary of State in early 1947 soon after he developed his European recovery plan and announced it in June of that year from
- April 1948 to December 1951 the United States shipped food fuel machinery and money to European countries the goal was to help them get back on their feet
- after the devastation of the war in one sense this was good deed foreign policy the United States was being a friend using its considerable resources to help
- war-torn Europe plus the last time the world left a conquered nation and ruins Nazi Germany rose to power but there were other reasons to implement the
- Marshall Plan as well by investing in the economies of European countries the u.s. helped create new markets for its exports perhaps we could interest you in
- a Buick there was a strategic objective to the US wanted to isolate the Soviet Union to keep it from expanding its sphere of influence beyond Eastern
- Europe how better to make capitalism appealing than to spread around money in a war-torn country by the way here are all the countries that received Marshall
- Plan Aid in alphabetical order ready Austria Belgium Denmark France Greece Iceland Ireland Italy Luxembourg the Netherlands
- Norway Portugal Sweden Switzerland turkey the United Kingdom and West Germany now if you listen closely you might have noticed a couple of major
- European countries that weren't on that list the USSR didn't trust the u.s. intentions with the Marshall Plan and forbade Poland and Czechoslovakia from
- receiving American aid too bad for that because the plan worked the gross national product of Marshall Plan countries grew as much as 25 percent it
- put Western European industry back on its feet the American export economy boomed and Soviet influence communism was contained
- to Eastern Europe nice work George Marshall in 1953 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts the greater honor for Marshall though may
- have been seeing Europe rise from the ashes thanks in part to the plan that bears his name young people in large numbers came out and joined what became
- known as the Red Guards these largely terroristic organizations were used to publicly humiliate assault and in some cases even murder political enemies of
- Mao and the Communist Party