notes
The Marshall Plan
- Implemented when G.B. decided to pull out of Greece
- 400 mil. dollars pledged to Greece and Turkey to prevent expansion of Communism
- It became a mantra for american policy throughout the world to stop the spread of communism
- "line in the sand"
The Marshall Plan
- George C. Marshall, secretary of state proposed aid to rebuild western Europe
- Sixteen nations applied for the aid to be handed out over 4 years
- Also helped limit expansion of communism
- The US govt. blocked the aid until Czechoslovakia was taken over in 1948.
Sugestive question
What if the USSR was fasist quotes "The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting." Richard M. Nixon |