<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" > the United States can't do it if it doesn't do this, otherwise it is very likely to bury its own victory. </h1>
The Marshall Plan, also known as the "European Renaissance Plan," was proposed after World War II by General Marshall, then U.S. Secretary of State.
The purpose of this plan is to provide economic assistance to the European countries damaged by the war in World War II and to assist them in rebuilding the plan.
The program was officially launched in July 1947.
In fact, this economic aid program includes not only the exquisite Western European countries, but also the Eastern European countries and the Soviet Union that have just established socialist regimes.
However, this set of Empirical Diplomacy of the United States was rejected by the Socialist Camp dominated by the Soviet Union.
If you think about it, it is impossible for the socialist camp to receive economic aid from the United States.
Because the Cold War had already begun, Britain and the United States had long since shown their malice toward the socialist camp.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="02" > in fact, the Marshall plan is open, there are deeper reasons. </h1>
That is, after The end of World War II, the pressing problem facing the United States was not the invasion of Western Europe by the Soviet Union's steel torrent.
Because the Soviet economy was also greatly damaged by the war, it could not be recovered for a while and a half, and it was unable to start a larger war.
But at this time, after years of war, the countries of Western Europe had already been devastated and their economies were on the verge of collapse.
After World War II, Western Europe was full of rubble, and the factories were quietly gone!
The railway system was also destroyed, and the countryside was desolate, and the tragic situation could not be seen directly.
From the North Sea to the Aegean Sea on the edge of Greece, there is hunger and chaos everywhere, and with the blizzard and the great flood after the blizzard, there are many natural disasters.
More than half of Britain's industry was paralyzed, and agricultural production fell to 19th-century levels.
On 20 January 1947, the British government publicly acknowledged that "Britain is in an extremely dangerous situation." "It's only one step away from the crash.
It was for these reasons that the political situation in the post-war countries of Western Europe was turbulent, and the people of various countries were very dissatisfied with the authorities.
The situation also intensified rapidly over time, and this situation also provided the soil for the development of the workers' movement in various European countries, and also provided the opportunity for the Soviet Union to intervene in the politics of Western European countries.
In 1947, workers in the factories of the French Renault Automobile Company first went on strike, and then in May and June, it developed into a general strike movement throughout France, and the French industrial and mining enterprises and railways were almost paralyzed.
At the same time, the workers' movement in Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands and other countries was also in the ascendant, and gradually the workers' movement in Western Europe had formed a powerful political force.
At this time, the French Communist Party had developed quite large as early as World War II, and after the war, it became the most influential political party in France, controlling the French Federation of Trade Unions with 5 million members.
The Italian Communist Party also grew in Italy, with 2.5 million members and a high reputation in Italy.
The plight of the Countries of Western Europe has also led to the continuous expansion of the power of the Communist Party, and there is even a danger of seizing power in the countries of Western Europe.
The United States is very afraid that once the Communist Parties of Western Europe come to power and overthrow the original capitalist regime, the regime will change color, and Europe will be red.
Needless to say, these countries are likely to fall to the Soviet Union and go to the opposite side of the United States.
Then, in World War II, the United States invested a huge amount of manpower and material resources to liberate the countries of Western Europe.
In the end, the United States will be empty and happy, but it will make a wedding dress for its sworn enemy, the Soviet Union, and the United States' own world status will be greatly threatened.
Seriously, without the blessing of Western European countries to the United States' allies, whether the United States can establish a solid world hegemonic system is still a question.
Therefore, in the face of this situation, the United States naturally cannot sit still and must find ways to restore the economies of Western European countries.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="03" > so in this context, the Marshall Plan of the United States was released. </h1>
It began to provide large-scale assistance to Western European countries to rebuild the pace, and finally changed the decline, and Western European countries have once again become the most developed region in the world after more than ten years of reconstruction.
Of course, the Americans did not lose money, it can be said that they made a lot of profits, allowing dollar capital to be embedded in the economies of European countries, so as to achieve the purpose of controlling the economies of European countries.
It also gained political support from Western European countries and had many more helpers in the competition with its sworn enemy, the Soviet Union.
The Marshall Plan began in July 1947 and lasted for nearly four years, with 16 countries receiving aid. During this period, Western European countries, through their participation in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Europe, received a total of $13.15 billion in various forms of assistance from the United States in terms of technology, equipment and funds, of which 90% were grants and 10% were loans.
In this regard, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was the most angry, commenting that the Marshall Plan was "the most generous move in human history." "Worthy of being an old politician, sleek and talkative. (End)