Title: How did the U.S attempt to stop the spread of communism and influence international security? | andreck04
Headings: How did the U.S attempt to stop the spread of communism and influence international security?
How did the U.S attempt to stop the spread of communism and influence international security?
Content: Truman therefore developed some policies to prevent this expansion. The first known as Marshall Plan “Officially known as the European Recovery Program (ERP), the Marshall Plan was intended to rebuild the economies and spirits of western Europe, primarily. Marshall was convinced the key to restoration of political stability lay in the revitalization of national economies. Further he saw political stability in Western Europe as a key to blunting the advances of communism in that region, sixteen nations, including Germany, became part of the program and shaped the assistance they required, state by state, with administrative and technical assistance provided through the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA) of the United States. European nations received nearly $13 billion in aid, which initially resulted in shipments of food, staples, fuel and machinery from the United States and later resulted in investment in industrial capacity in Europe. Marshall Plan funding ended in 1951” [1]. It´s important to mention that this plan was made for countries those were willing to establish the capitalism as the current economic system that´s why the Soviet Union refuses the help. But in the coming years the confrontation and the willing to stop communism became more violent in different parts of the world as: The Korean War: On June 25, 1950, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south.