On April 3rd, 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed the Economic Recovery Program, also known as the Marshall Plan. This program was designed to help European nations recover from the devastating ...

It was no part of Secretary Marshall's intent to make the European Recovery Plan an instrument in a war of ideologies between the Soviet Union and the United States. That result came from Russia's ...

The Marshall Plan used $13.3 billion in U.S. funds – roughly $171 billion in today’s dollars – to rebuild war-torn Western Europe from 1948 to late 1951. It is often evoked as a solution for ...

The Marshall Plan offered US$ 13.3 billion to 16 countries in Europe, thus intertwining their economies with that of the US. Categories: Politics , Latin America , United States .