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Effects Of The Marshall Plan

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The space “Debate: El Plan Marshall” was issued in the program “Para todos La 2” on February 5, 2013. It is a colloquium between Emilio Sáenz-Francés, Professor History and International Relations at the University Pontificia de Comillas; and Lorenzo Delgado Gómez-Escalonilla, researcher at the Higher Center for Scientific Research. The colloquium focuses on explaining the effects of The Marshall Plan, a plan of aid that the United States established after the Second World War to rebuild Europe- Plan that Franco's Spain couldn’t benefit.
After the Second World War, much of Europe was devastated and millions of people had died, most of the cities and the industrial areas were badly damaged. The economic structure of the continent had been destroyed. …show more content…

They remained outside the program Spain, the only major European country that was not called and the small countries of Andorra, San Marino, Liechestain and Monaco.
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