Diego
Mrs. Sødal
English
8th October 2017

Marshall Plan

https://www.britannica.com/event/Marshall-Plan
-	Formally called the “European Recovery Program”
-	(1948-1951)
-	Plan to rehabilitate economy of Europe
-	George C. Marshall
-	Self-help program
-	Financed by United States
-	It was offered to virtually all European countries
-	Communistic and Eastern countries withdrew from participation
-	Countries in plan:
o	Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and western Germany.
-	Four-year plan
-	Financial aid for
o	Trade
o	Agriculture
o	Industrialization
-	Financed 13 billion dollars from U.S over the period or 4 years

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/marshall-plan
-	Plan to stop communism from spreading
-	Europe vulnerable after war
-	In addition to help Europe, companies and factories for export goods were made
-	George C. Marshall received a Nobel Peace prize

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/marshall-plan
-	Argued that the export of dollars made it so that