The Marshall Plan

Europe remained physically and economically destroyed after World War Two. When the U.S. saw all the problems in Europe, they decided to help them before the USSR could get involved. If the U.S. wanted to contain communism, they were going to need to help the Europe economy majorly. On June 5, 1947, U.S. Secretary of State, George Marshall developed a European Recovery Program that Marshall proposed that America would give aid to any European country that needed it to help their economy. America offered this plan to all of Europe, even the USSR. The USSR declined, which the U.S. knew it would. Who ever accepted this would receive aid from the U.S., getting money, food, supplies, and anything else they needed. Truman thought if they removed trouble from Europe it would reduce communism threat, which was true. After the U.S. supporting many nations to help their economy they thought good about capitalism not using communism as a back up plan. The Marshall Plan, served as one of the most successful containment policies during the Cold War.