The Marshall Plan, also called the European Recovery Program, was a plan that would “restore confidence of the European people in the economic future of their own countries and of Europe as a whole”. The plan succeeded in raising $13 billion to finance the economy. The US Secretary of State George C. Marshall announced the plan in a commencement speech at Harvard University leading to the plan being named after him. Europe was devastated by the years of conflict during WW2. Millions of people were
He explained the Wirtschaftswunder to be an economic miracle that originated in West Germany and Berlin. During this economic wonder, the german leaders did many things that caught the eyes of citizens. These things included reduced tariffs, expanded free trade, lowered taxes
In his remarkable “Berlin Wall Speech”, Ronald Reagan persuasively applies arguments based on integrity to demonstrate his credibility as a winner of democracy, assertions based on rationale to justify his invocation, and pleas to emotion to strengthen his association to the ethics of Berliners and to liberty, in his ple on Gorbachev to demolish the “Berlin Wall”, advance harmony, and encourage freedom in Berlin. The inauguration of Ronald Reagan’s speech is typified by his appeals to the social
In the period of 1948 to 1989, Germany split into two separate counties, one being The Federal Republic of Germany otherwise known as West Germany and the other was The German Democratic Republic (East Germany). West Germany was very dominate compared to East Germany in almost everything from economics, citizen life, and government control. West Germany’s economics booming, and they were a role model for other countries around the world while East Germany was poor and very controlled. Similarly
The Cold War in Western Europe is marked by the change from separatism to unity. After the Second World War, the Western European countries needed to rebuild their countries. In Great Britain, the Labour party established the welfare state, where citizens would be provided with the bare essentials of living. In France, Charles De Gaulle led the Fifth Republic and improved France’s stance in Europe as an economic power. Meanwhile, in Italy, Christian Democrats and democracy replaced fascism, however