POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
THE MARSHALL PLAN
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The Audit
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The Marshall Plan
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The Berlin Airlift
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The Truman Doctrine
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Detailed explanation-1: -Over the next four years, Congress appropriated $13.3 billion for European recovery. This aid provided much needed capital and materials that enabled Europeans to rebuild the continent’s economy.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
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.
Detailed explanation-4: -the Marshall plan was launched to prevent an economic collapse that would aid the spread of Communism. The United States gave 13 billion dollars to Europe in the Marshall Plan. These funds were given in grant funds that did not need to be repaid. In todays funds this is equivalent to 130 billion dollars.