El Plan Marshall (denominado oficialmente European Recovery Program o ERP) fue el principal plan de los Estados Unidos para la reconstrucción de los países europeos después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, que a la vez estaba destinado a contener un posible avance del comunismo. La iniciativa recibió el nombre del Secretario de Estado de los Estados Unidos, George Marshall, y fue diseñada principalmente por el Departamento de Estado, en especial por William L. Clayton y George F. Kennan.
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The Marshall Plan (officially called the European Recovery Program [ERP]) was a plan of the United States for rebuilding the allied countries of Europe after World War II. Another reason was to stop communism.
The plan was named after Secretary of State George Marshall, but the plan was worked out by other people in the State Department.
The plan ran for four years beginning in July 1947. During that period some US$ 13 thousand million in economic and technical assistance were given to help the recovery of the European countries that had joined in the Organization for European Economic Co-operation.[1]
By the time the plan ended, the economy of every member state except Germany, had grown well past pre-war levels.
In recent years some historians have said that another reason for the plan was to make the United States stronger, and to make the countries of western Europe need the United States. They also say that the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, which helped millions of refugees from 1944 to 1947, also helped the European postwar recovery.
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