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American aid to Europe after WW2
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marshall plan
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The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program , ERP ) was an American initiative to aid Western Europe , in which the United States gave over $12 billion (approximately $120 billion in current dollar value as of June 2016) in economic support ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1947, named for its initiator, George C. Marshall (1880-1959), U.S. Secretary of State 1947-49.
Usage examples of marshall plan.
If this American Marshall Plan works, perhaps France will snap out of its funk.
Marshall Space Flight Center, and on the day the transfer was completed-with a speech to remind the locals that General Marshall had been a powerful soldier, a fine Secretary of State, the creator of the Marshall Plan, which had helped save Europe, and a winner of the Nobel Prize-Dieter and his engineers perfected their plans for the gigantic rocket which they had named Saturn I, suspecting that there would be many improved versions later: Saturns II, III, and who could predict how many more.
The Soviet Union has had its momentum halted by the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, NATO, and the Airlift.
But they also will not be excessively onerous, and we should not exaggerate them--we will not have to mount World War II and the Marshall Plan again.
Sixteen western European nations formed the Organization for European Economic Cooperation to coordinate the program formally known as the European Recovery Program, but more familiarly called the Marshall Plan.