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Headings: Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan
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Alternatives to the Marshall Plan
Morgenthau plan
Monnet plan
Level of industry agreement
Criticism
References
Further reading
Notes
Other websites

Content: During that period US$ 13 billion in economic and technical help were given to help the recovery of the European countries that had joined in the Organization for European Economic Co-operation. By the time the plan ended, the economy of every member state had grown well past pre-war levels. In recent years some historians have said that another reason for the plan was to make the United States stronger, and to make the countries of western Europe need the United States. They also say that the United Nations (UN) Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, which helped millions of refugees from 1944 to 1947, it also helped the European postwar recovery. Contents
1 Alternatives to the Marshall Plan
1.1 Morgenthau plan
1.2 Monnet plan
1.3 Level of industry agreement
2 Criticism
3 Related pages
4 References
5 Further reading
6 Notes
7 Other websites
Alternatives to the Marshall Plan
Burned-out buildings after the bombing of Hamburg
Morgenthau plan
U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr. said that if Europe needed money to rebuild what had been destroyed by the war, they should take it from Germany. This money was called war reparations. Morgenthau said it would also stop Germany from ever being rebuilt, and threatening to start another war. Taking money from Germany was done after World War I. It did not work. Instead of helping other countries it hurt them. This is because companies could not sell the coal and steel that they made because it was coming in free from Germany.