In nine pages this paper assesses whether political or economic factors registered the greatest integration impact on Western Europe during this time period. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography.
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development of Western European integration from 1950 to 1970, one can surely give equal credit to both political and economic factors. That Western Europe was able to emerge from
its grievous postwar existence is not something that can be contributed solely to one or the other. However, there were a handful of events that served to stand out
as consequential to integration, such as the political factors of post-materialism and the Marshall Plan. II. THE MARSHALL PLAN The issues that
led up to Secretary of State Marshall having to take such an unprecedented stand with the Marshall plan in relation to Western European integration between 1950 and 1970 originated in
what is labeled the Age of Catastrophe. The period between 1914 and 1945 brought much grief and heartache to the people of Europe, as it reflected a time of
great concern for the safety of both Europeans and their country. Among the adverse activities that occurred during that period include two world wars, Fascism, Nazism, Stalinist Totalitarianism, and
the Depression, all of which contributed to the death of more than sixty million people by means of murder, war and starvation. Disaster after disaster followed one upon another
through the middle nineteen forties that had Europe scrambling for cover (Rosenberg, 1995). While having started as "an inter-imperialist conflict" (Rosenberg, 1995, p.
139) among capitalist leaders, World War I eventually came to be the inciter of "a series of huge blows" (p. 139) that would endanger the very presence of capitalism as
it existed in Europe during that period. The grave combination of "senseless slaughter and deepening economic exhaustion" (Rosenberg, 1995, p. 139) took a substantial toll on European politics, which