The Marshall Plan and the Shaping of American Strategy

" How the United States helped restore a Europe battered by World War II and created the foundation for the postwar international order Seventy years ago, in the wake of World War II, the United States did something almost unprecedented in world history: It launched and paid for an economic aid plan to restore a continent reeling from war. The European Recovery Planbetter known as the Marshall Plan, after chief advocate Secretary of State George C. Marshallwas in part an act of charity but prima