Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Marshall Aid
- Americans believed Communism
spred in European countries with
economic problems
- USA wanted Europe to
recover, so they could buy
American goods
- Situation in Europe got worse in
1946/7 due to severe winters and
droughts - starvation -Patient is
sinking while the doctor deliberates
- June 1947 - George Marshall, economic
programmes - $13 billion to 16 countries
- Became known as
"Marshall Aid" and offered
to all countries including
USSR
- Stalin refused and made
Eastern bloc do the same