Marshall Plan

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  1. 2. Soviet Union was promoting this after WW2, and the U.S. was afraid that this would spread throughout the weakened and rebuilding countries in Europe, which is why the U.S. created the Marshall Plan.
  2. 5. Country that promoted communism after WW2 and refused to take grants offered by the U.S. during the Marshall Plan, creating tension between the two countries, sparking the Cold War.
  3. 6. A period of tension between the Soviet Union and the U.S.A. It is said to have started because of the Marshall Plan, and the bi-polar views of government and economy that the U.S. was trying to spread in Europe compared to the Soviet Union.
  4. 8. Due to the success of the Marshall Plan, Harry S. Truman established a similar program helping underdeveloped countries in 1949.
  5. 9. A U.S. Plan to financially support European countries during the aftermath of WW2 from April 1948 to December 1951. They didn't want communist ideas to spread throughout Europe. Countries participating in this plan included Austria, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, and western Germany.
  6. 10. They Received five percent of the total funds given to countries to create businesses in Europe to promote U.S. ideas and anti-communism throughout Europe.
  7. 11. A U.S. administration that oversaw and distributed 13 billion dollars in aid for rebuilding countries economics, trade, industry, and agriculture.
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  1. 1. A committee set up by 16 of the 17 participating European countries to organize the countries involved in the Marshall Plan, and they enacted a four year recovery plan for the countries included in it. This committee eventually got replaced by the Organization for European Economic Co-operation.
  2. 3. Marshall Plan is said to to be one of the key reasons this was formed. It was a military alliance with North America and European countries.
  3. 4. U.S. President during the time of the Marshall Plan.
  4. 7. Proposed the idea of the his plan in his speech to the Harvard Graduating class in 1947, and was called the Marshall Plan, named after him. He also won the Noble Peace Prize due to his efforts towards recovering from the damages placed in Europe after World War Two.