The marshall plan was an event that influenced the cold war because of it was known as an aid for europe and other places.
- In one of the most important speeches of the Cold War, George C. Marshall calls on the US to assist in the economic recovery of postwar Europe.
-His speech provided the impetus for the so-called Marshall Plan, under which the United States sent billions of dollars to Western Europe to rebuild the war-torn countries.
-In 1946 and into 1947, economic disaster loomed for Western Europe.
-World War II had done immense damage, and the crippled economies of Great Britain and France could not reinvigorate the region’s economic activity.
-Germany, once the industrial dynamo of Western Europe, lay in ruins. Unemployment, homelessness, and even starvation were commonplace.
-For the United States, the situation was of special concern on two counts. First, the economic chaos of Western Europe was providing a prime breeding ground for the growth of communism.
-Second, the U.S. economy, which was quickly returning to a civilian state after several years of war, needed the markets of Western Europe in order to sustain itself.
- In one of the most important speeches of the Cold War, George C. Marshall calls on the US to assist in the economic recovery of postwar Europe.
-His speech provided the impetus for the so-called Marshall Plan, under which the United States sent billions of dollars to Western Europe to rebuild the war-torn countries.
-In 1946 and into 1947, economic disaster loomed for Western Europe.
-World War II had done immense damage, and the crippled economies of Great Britain and France could not reinvigorate the region’s economic activity.
-Germany, once the industrial dynamo of Western Europe, lay in ruins. Unemployment, homelessness, and even starvation were commonplace.
-For the United States, the situation was of special concern on two counts. First, the economic chaos of Western Europe was providing a prime breeding ground for the growth of communism.
-Second, the U.S. economy, which was quickly returning to a civilian state after several years of war, needed the markets of Western Europe in order to sustain itself.