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Effects Of The Marshall Plan

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Under the Marshall Plan, the United States offered massive aid to help rebuild war-torn Europe. The Marshall Plan went into operation in the summer of 1947.over the course of 4 years; several Western European nations received about $13 billion in aid that included dollars, food, fuel, machinery, and technical assistance from U.S. businesspeople and engineers.The funding helped rebuild cities, factories and economies with equipment brought mostly from American companies There was a crisis in the Mediterranean; a civil war broke out in Greece. There in Greece, Communist-led rebels were waging war against the non-communist government. Nearby, a communist insurgency also threatened Turkey. Amid the unrest, the Soviet Union moved troops to the Turkish
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