Author: United States. Economic Cooperation Administration
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 1102

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Author: United States. Economic Cooperation Administration. Public Advisory Board
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Foreign Economic Cooperation
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Author: Greg Behrman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416545913
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 4

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In this landmark, character-driven history, Greg Behrman tells the story of the Marshall Plan, the unprecedented and audacious policy through which America helped rebuild World War II-ravaged Western Europe. With nuanced, vivid prose, Behrman recreates the story of a unique American enterprise that was at once strategic, altruistic and stunningly effective, and of a time when America stood as a beacon of generosity and moral leadership. When World War II ended in Europe, the continent lay in tatters. Tens of millions of people had been killed. Ancient cities had been demolished. The economic, financial and commercial foundations of Europe were in shambles. Western Europe's Communist parties -- feeding off people's want and despair -- were flourishing as, to the east, Stalin's Soviet Union emerged as the sole superpower on the continent. The Marshall Plan was a four-year, $13 billion (more than $100 billion in today's dollars) plan to provide assistance for Europe's economic recovery. More than an aid program, it sought to modernize Western Europe's economies and launch them on a path to prosperity and integration; to restore Western Europe's faith in democracy and capitalism; to enmesh the region firmly in a Western economic association and eventually a military alliance. It was the linchpin of America's strategy to meet the Soviet threat. It helped to trigger the Cold War and, eventually, to win it. Through detailed and exhaustive research, Behrman brings this vital and dramatic epoch to life and animates the personalities that shaped it. The narrative follows the six extraordinary American statesmen -- George Marshall, Will Clayton, Arthur Vandenberg, Richard Bissell, Paul Hoffman and W. Averell Harriman -- who devised and implemented the Plan, as well as some of the century's most important personalities -- Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, Joseph McCarthy -- who are also central players in the drama told here. More than a humanitarian endeavor, the Marshall Plan was one of the most effective foreign policies in all of American history, in large part because, as Behrman writes, it was born and executed in a time when American "foreign policy was defined by its national interests and the very best of ideals."

Author: John Agnew
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135770298
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 315

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This volume has as its focus the role of the Marshall Plan as both a force in the transformation of European Economic practices and a stimulus to political integration in Europe. This organizing theme is framed in terms of two other issues that are central to contemporary debates in international political economy and geopolitical studies: the origins and development of the Cold War, and the growing globalisation of the world economy. In relating the Marshall Plan to these issues, this book goes beyond the typical diplomatic history approach to place the Plan in the context of both the political economy of late twentieth-century Europe, and the impact of American models of business and government that came with the Plan.

Author: United States. Congress
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324

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Author: United States. Economic Cooperation Administration
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Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Author: United States Military Academy. Department of Social Sciences
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Category : International relations
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Foreign Economic Cooperation
Publisher:
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
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Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 700

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