Through the Marshall Plan, the U. S. made an agreement to do whatever we could to assist in rebuilding the economy of the world. Any action taken was to be in the assistance of other countries, not causing problems. “Any government that is willing to assist in the task of recovery will find full cooperation, I am sure, on the part of the United States government” (Document C) Our resources would not only be used on ourselves but to help rebuild struggling countries. This plan had a major focus on Europe and helped them rebuild after the war because of the lasting effects it had.
In document H, George C. Marshall is giving his speech about foreign policy. “Our policy is directed not against any country… but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos.” He offered the Marshall Plan to aid in the aftermath of WWII. Now that the United States has become one of the stronger world powers, the effort to keep other nations afloat has become one of the priorities by top officials such as Marshall and Harry Truman. They created this idea of containing communism.
The Iron Curtain was the Soviets taking control over eight European countries on the border of the Soviet Union, providing the Soviets with a barrier in case of an attack. The United States responded with the Marshall Plan, giving money to European countries to help with reconstruction and to turn them away from Communism. “Europe must have a great deal of additional help, or face
Many Western Nation in Europe saw the Soviets actions as a threat to global democracy. The Soviet Union wanted to maintain their power and spread their communist ideology throughout the world. A longtime democracy advocate, the United States came to Europe’s aid. Through the Marshall Plan, the
He had a proposal called the Marshall Plan, to have America give money to Western Europe in 1948 to help them rebuild (Cannarella 39). The President’s idea was smart because he showed America that he cared about Europe and rebuilding their economy. The Berlin Airlift was another way Truman decided to help. In 1948, the Soviets stopped all food and goods entering Germany from the west. Many of these German people would starve, so Truman ordered troops to send in supplies until the Soviet’s agreed to allow goods back into Germany (Cannarella 40).
Stopping the spread of Communism through military and nonmilitary ways. The Soviets had expansive tendencies. The Soviets wanted to isolate West Berlin from the West and take them over. From Document A, In these circumstances it is clear that the main element of any United States policy
This tug of war between Roosevelt representing an interventionist minority and the isolationists in Congress resulted in little effective headway made in either direction until the United States was once again forced into a world war. In President Harry Truman’s speech, The Truman Doctrine, given on the twelfth of March, 1947 before a Joint Session of Congress, Truman voiced, “I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.” After World War Two, the United States realized that a lack of involvement and aid for war torn countries allowed communism and totalitarianism to spread. The Soviet Union took control of many Eastern European countries, and this was called the Iron Curtain by Winston Churchill. Unlike in World War One and the beginning of World War Two, Truman had support from more well liked figures such as George F. Kennan and George C. Marshall. Kennan’s idea was based around providing economic and financial aid to struggling countries, and this heavily shaped the plan America would use.
The Soviet Union began demanding adjustments to its relations and control over Turkey, as well as Iran. Though Stalin backed down at the threat of U.S. Naval forces, his actions led to the containment policy. This policy is used to prevent the spread of communism. Later, in 1947, the United States took over the responsibility of providing economic aid to Turkey and Greece and announced that they would be helping the nations affected by Communism. The Marshall Plan was put into effect later that year and it offered reconstruction aid to much of Europe.
In France and Italy, there were also food and fuel shortages and Tuberculosis was breaking out. Truman knew something had to be done. He decided to launch the Marshall Plan to help Western Europe industrialization and its economy. It was also reassurance that communism wouldn’t spread all over
It was Western Europe that was fundamentally important for US national security. The United Kingdom and a number of other European countries have taken active foreign policy steps to intensify US European policy. Europe needed economic assistance and military support. However, such a policy of Europe found understanding within the United States, which resulted in the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan. The Marshall Plan, according to many researchers, is a practical embodiment of the Truman Doctrine.
This source is very useful to a historian, it explains the Soviet response to the Marshall Plan, and they believed it was a clear example of American economic imperialism. They believed the Americans were trying to undermine the Soviet sphere of influence in Europe by taking over countries and making them dependant on the US dollar so that they could not turn to communism, if they did they would face the risk of having their aid stopped. From my own knowledge, I know that one condition of receiving the aid was that countries would have to share their economic information with the USA. The soviets believed that the Marshall Plan was an attempt to place countries under their economic and political control, as demonstrated by the fact they had to share economic information. The plan was perceived as having ideological reasons and the USA were trying to control countries by making them reliant on the dollar and through fear of this money being taken away if they turned to Communism, undermining and posing a clear threat to Soviet influence in eastern
This program, later referred to as the Marshall Plan, rebuilt and modernized Europe while creating favorable ties to the United States through trade. The last caveat was put in place to help the economies of all Allied countries involved in the conflict recover and leave in place favorable ties to inhibit further conflict. This plan was a masterwork that shaped the world following massive conflict, and could not have been accomplished without
American support was given to both Turkey and Greece... Turkey fought the Soviet Union 's pressure over communism; and the Greek government exited communism by October 1949. Overall, by giving aid to Turkey and Greece, President Truman exceeded his main goal of turning countries from communist to capitalist just by offering money/other ways of giving
The Marshall Plan, which offered economic support to any European countries, including those under Soviet control, to rebuild their economies. This plan made communism seem less appealing to the countries who accepted it. This implies that it most likely convinced the majority of the population of these countries that democracy was stronger as they were able to rebuild unlike the Eastern countries, who did not accept the Marshall Plan and did not recover as rapidly. When Britain, France, and the U.S., combined their zones as well as their areas in Berlin to form West Germany, the Soviet Union were angered because they believed that this would hurt their chances for war reparations and blockaded West Germany’s part of Berlin, which was in the U.S.S.R. zone. The only way West Germany could get supplies to their section of Berlin was by plane and they did this for a year before Stalin stopped the ban of West Germany’s supplies.
pg718). The main objectives was to keep Europe from becoming a communist Nation. The resources were scarce and the people of Europe would fall victims to the hands of the communist. Despite the war efforts of the Soviet Union and the allies (to remain united), Soviets rejected America's offer of the Marshall Plan.
