POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
THE MARSHALL PLAN
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It was an attempt to weaken Soviet interest in their satellite states through the conditions imposed and by making beneficiary countries economically dependent on the United States.
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It was a system of bilateral trade agreements which also established COMECON to create an economic alliance of socialist countries.
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It was the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe.
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It was run under the supervision of the United States since Joseph Stalin was one of the key leaders of it.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union (aka satellite state).
Detailed explanation-2: -The primary goal of the plan was to turn the Soviet Union from a mostly agricultural into an industrialized country. The secondary goal was collectivization of agriculture which was supposed to aid in industrialization. One of the reasons for the plan’s launch in 1928 was the grain shortage of 1927-1928.
Detailed explanation-3: -While the Marshall Plan was, in part, created to stop the spread of communism, the Molotov Plan was there to encourage it. Money from the Soviet Union could be used to prop up nascent communist states in a similar way that the money from the Marshall Plan was attempting to rebuild western-style democracies.