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What were the goals of the Marshall Plan?
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Content: This is why the Marshall Plan is sometimes called the "New Deal for Europe." Like the New Deal under President Franklin Roosevelt, the Marshall Plan sought to create demand by spending government money. Finally, a purpose of the plan was to organize the European economy in such a way as to make it easier to manage. The Marshall Plan was actually a major step on the road to a unified European market. Further Reading
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The Marshall Plan had two interrelated goals. The Plan was intended to improve the economic situations of the countries of Western Europe and, at the same time, to discourage them from embracing communism. After WWII, the countries of Europe were badly damaged. The US was worried that their damaged economies, and the poverty caused by that damage, would cause those countries' citizens to be interested in becoming communist. The US was afraid that this would lead to the Soviet Union dominating all of continental Europe. Because of this fear (and because of a sincere desire to help), the US gave huge amounts of aid to the European countries.