A 1950 poster promoting the European Recovery Plan (usually called The Marshall Plan). The Marshall Plan was a very ambitious financial aid program proposed by US Secretary of State George Marshall. He understood that a destroyed and prostrate Europe had to have financial help if it were to recover and to remove the threat of communist insurgency. The aid was given not lent and each country decided on how it would use the funds. In the three years of the program the US gave Europe $13 billion, a colossal sum worth $175 billion at todays values. This far-seeing and generous plan was a major fac
A 1950 poster promoting the European Recovery Plan (usually called The Marshall Plan). The Marshall Plan was a very ambitious financial aid program proposed by US Secretary of State George Marshall. He understood that a destroyed and prostrate Europe had to have financial help if it were to recover and to remove the threat of communist insurgency. The aid was given not lent and each country decided on how it would use the funds. In the three years of the program the US gave Europe $13 billion, a colossal sum worth $175 billion at todays values. This far-seeing and generous plan was a major factor in restarting the rebuilding of the European economy into its current robust health.
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