A few days ago
firefly_eyes75

After WW ll, Europe recieved large amounts of financial aid because of the:?

A: Marshall Plan

B: Common Market

C: World Bank

D: Cominform

Thanks for your help =)

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A few days ago
Cath

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I would suggest looking it up 🙂

Look up the Secretary of State at the time

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A few days ago
leogirl376
A. the Marshall Plan

On June 5, 1947, Secretary of State George C. Marshall spoke at Harvard University and outlined what would become known as the Marshall Plan. Europe, still devastated by the war, had just survived one of the worst winters on record. The nations of Europe had nothing to sell for hard currency, and the democratic socialist governments in most countries were unwilling to adopt the draconian proposals for recovery advocated by old-line classical economists. Something had to be done, both for humanitarian reasons and also to stop the potential spread of communism westward.

The United States offered up to $20 billion for relief, but only if the European nations could get together and draw up a rational plan on how they would use the aid. For the first time, they would have to act as a single economic unit; they would have to cooperate with each other. Marshall also offered aid to the Soviet Union and its allies in eastern Europe, but Stalin denounced the program as a trick and refused to participate. The Russian rejection probably made passage of the measure through Congress possible.

The Marshall Plan, it should be noted, benefited the American economy as well. The money would be used to buy goods from the United States, and they had to be shipped across the Atlantic on American merchant vessels. But it worked. By 1953 the United States had pumped in $13 billion, and Europe was standing on its feet again. Moreover, the Plan included West Germany, which was thus reintegrated into the European community. (The aid was all economic; it did not include military aid until after the Korean War.)

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A few days ago
betyoucantfindme
A) Marshall Plan.

the United States wanted to make sure the war-ravaged countries (whose treasuries were drained by the war) didn’t fall to communism.

I’ve never heard of B or D in regards to American history, and the World Bank does loan money, but not “large amounts” to Europe after WWII.

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A few days ago
William R
A
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