Using the facts you’ve gathered from the article The Marshall Plan Myth, class discussion, and your graphic organizer answer the two short FRQs below. 2 paragraphs, 8-10 sentences for each paragraph with quotes from article where/when appropriate. Be sure to analyze any quotes you use to help the reader identify what is relevant and important. Submit your responses thru google classroom.

Explain and analyze how and why the respective pre-existing strengths and weaknesses either prepared or hampered each region (Europe and Afghanistan) for post-war economic revival. Please focus on identifying and contrasting Afghanistan as a traditional economy and Western Europe as a modernized free market.
	After the destruction of WW2, the United States proposed a new aid for countries suffering from the repercussions of the war. In Western Europe, an industrialized society, the Marshall Plan was proposed. It gave the western Europen nations over 13 billion dollars to recreate their economy by giving loans to companies to make new buildings and create new jobs. As well as pay back war debts from those who bought things such as war bonds and weapons manufacturers. The whole reason that the Marshall Plan ended up working inWestern Europe was because of Europe's pre existing free market economy. The money was able to be put back into the market and instantly to start reconstruction of buildings lost in the war and began giving the war torn people of Europe much needed jobs. But because of their Free market economy, people who had jobs that were not needed to reconstruct or smaller companies what did not show as much promise were often forgotten and were last in line to receive money from the Marshall Plan. Which resulted in smaller companies to suffer from under funding from their Government.
 	However Afghanistan which also received the Marshall plan to rebuild, had much more issues rebuilding. The main reason was that Afghanistan had pretty much started the war with nothing, it had always been a poor un-industrialised country. So when they received the money they had to spend it on feeding their people and treating those who were hurt in the war. The money that was given was not enough for Afghanistan to industrialize so in the end they couldn’t get any long term effect to set them up to be economically sound. Not only this but even if Afghanistan had been industrialised they still had a traditional economy. Afghanistan was still using a traditional economy at the time, meaning that even if they could produce goods, no money would flow into the economy because they relied on trading to get their needs. The reason that they couldn’t have a free market economy however was because they had almost nothing that other countries with a strong currency wanted or even deemed legal. The main crop in Afghanistan at the time was opium, a drug crop that is banned in almost every country in the world and because of that Afghanistan was able to make almost no money trading so they could never even industrealise.





Explain and analyze how and why Mozambique offers a better template to use for reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan than the European Marshall Plan. Be sure to use specific economic terms in you answer as you contrast the two.
 	After Mozambique's civil war the country was left in ruin. With over one million left dead from the war, Mozambique was the poorest most and unorganized country in the world. While most of the world would see this as a tragedy, the United States and the UN saw this as a chance to rebuild a new country from ground zero. Unlike Afghanistan which at the time of their attempted rebuilding from the Marshall Plan had an established government system and a somewhat set up economy, Mozambique was a fresh slate for the UN and the US to work on. Due to the country having no established government, they were able to build the government as a successful democracy as they had done to their own countries. Not only where they able to create the government style to their pleasing they were also able to recreate the entire economy by giving them a new economic plan called the Mozambique plan. This plan was similar to the Marshall plan however the reason it was more successful when implemented in Mozambique was because the United States and the UN were able to control how the money was used. Economic powerhouses like the US were able to guide Mozambique to economic success and because of the help Mozambique received, the country was one of the fastest growing economies in the world from 1997-1999.
	What the US did was give Mozambique a blueprint to follow. Showing the country how to set up things from starting banks to health clinics, the US and the UN did it all. However when attempted in Afghanistan