Marshall Plan
What Marshall Plan means in History GCSE, as defined for OCR, Pearson Edexcel.
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The economic extension of containment, offering billions of dollars in aid to rebuild war-torn European economies in the belief that prosperous nations would reject communism.
Gave economic aid to rebuild Western Europe and reduce the appeal of communism.
Topics that use Marshall Plan
- International Relations: the changing international order 1918–1975 - The Cold War in Europe 1945–1961: Rising Tensions (OCR GCSE)
- Option P4: Key topic 1: The origins of the Cold War, 1941–58 - 2 The development of the Cold War (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Truman Doctrine
- American containment through the Truman Doctrine
- Berlin Airlift
- Causes of the building of the Berlin Wall
- Cominform
- Containment
- Division of Germany and Berlin
- Dollar imperialism
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