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The Marshall Plan provided
economic
assistance to help countries in postwar Europe rebuild.

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The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program) was a U.S. initiative announced in 1947 and carried out from 1948–1952 that provided roughly $12 billion (about $100–130 billion in today’s dollars) in economic aid to help Western European countries rebuild after World War II. Its goals were to finance reconstruction of industry and infrastructure, stabilize currencies and trade, revive agricultural production, and prevent the spread of communism by restoring prosperity. Aid was distributed conditionally through cooperative planning (notably via the Organization for European Economic Cooperation) and required recipient countries to pursue economic cooperation and liberalization. The Soviet Union and its Eastern European allies rejected the plan. The Marshall Plan is widely credited with accelerating Western Europe’s recovery, promoting economic integration, and strengthening transatlantic ties, though critics note it also advanced U.S. political and economic interests.