In five pages this paper discusses how Europe was impacted by the Marshall Plan with Germany the primary focus. Three sources are cited in the bibliography.
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a plan that was implemented in order to, not only help the economy and the people of Europe, but to strengthen the region so that America could further rely on
their resources and assistance. Understanding that it affected all of Europe we can also see that it affected each and every country, including Germany. In the following paper we examine
the Marshal Plans affect on Europe, with a major focus on Germany. The Marshall Plan General George C. Marshall, the man whose name is given to the plan, once
said that "The truth of the matter is that Europes requirements for the next three to four years of foreign food and other essential products - principally from America -
are so much greater than her present ability to pay that she must have substantial additional help or face economic, social and political deterioration of a very grave character. Our
policy is not directed against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos" He urged those who listened to understand that, "Its purpose should be the revival
of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist. ... Before the United States Government
can proceed much further in its efforts to alleviate the situation and help start the European world on its way to recovery, there must be some agreement among the countries
of Europe as to the requirements of the situation and the part those countries themselves will take in order to give proper effect to whatever action might be undertaken by
this Government ... The initiative, I think, must come from Europe" (Stern). With an understanding of the war which had just passed, it comes as no surprise to note