HISTORY
THE COLD WAR ERA
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offers military assistance to Greece and Turkey.
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offers economic stability to Western Europe.
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is the reason for U.S. involvement in Korea
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is the idea that if one country falls to communism, surrounding countries will also fall to communism.
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Detailed explanation-1: -This aid provided much needed capital and materials that enabled Europeans to rebuild the continent’s economy. For the United States, the Marshall Plan provided markets for American goods, created reliable trading partners, and supported the development of stable democratic governments in Western Europe.
Detailed explanation-2: -Furthermore, it is unlikely that the U.S. Congress would have been willing to fund the plan as generously as it did if aid also went to Soviet Bloc Communist nations. Thus the Marshall Plan was applied solely to Western Europe, precluding any measure of Soviet Bloc cooperation.
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: -It provided the Europeans with currency to buy US goods; it allowed rapid recovery and it provided a bulwark against the Communist parties of western Europe. The plan provided the conditions for rapid recovery, for both winners like Britain, and losers: Germany Italy and Japan.