USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -This left the following countries to participate in the plan: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and western Germany.

Detailed explanation-2: -The aid led to increased trade with American firms and a postwar economic boom in the United States. None of these nations of Western Europe faced a serious threat of communist takeover for the duration of the Cold War.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Marshall Plan was a U.S.-sponsored program that was implemented following the end of World War II. It was intended to aid European countries that had been destroyed as a result of the war, and it was laid out by U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall during an address at Harvard University in 1947.

Detailed explanation-4: -To avoid antagonizing the Soviet Union, Marshall announced that the purpose of sending aid to Western Europe was completely humanitarian, and even offered aid to the communist states in the east.