GK
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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Question
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To help rebuild the European economy after WWII
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Resolving the ethnic conflicts that plagued Europe in the 1900s
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Creating a market to provide food for a growing European population
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Addressing worker shortages arising from a low birth rate in Europe
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. It was enacted in 1948 and provided more than $15 billion to help finance rebuilding efforts on the continent. The brainchild of U.S. Secretary of State George C.
Detailed explanation-2: -The European Union was created against the backdrop of post World War II Europe. During a speech in Zurich in 1946, Winston Churchill spoke of the need to form a ‘European Family’ or a ‘United States of Europe’ to ensure peace and prosperity for Europe.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Marshall Plan was a U.S.-sponsored program designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to create stable conditions in which democratic institutions could survive in the aftermath of World War II. It was formally called the European Recovery Program.