and the USSR quickly retaliated with the Molotov Plan to prevent U.S. capital from dominating the entire continent. The similarities between China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the Marshall ...

On the night of April 15, 1947, accompanied by Smith and Bohlen, who would act as translator, Marshall made his way ... stood waiting. Molotov, Novikov, and a translator were present.

What later became known as the Marshall Plan had actually been born closer ... After a fruitless meeting with Stalin and Molotov in private, Marshall was convinced that the Soviet Union was ...