Question

The Marshall Plan’s purpose was to

Question 1 options:

create an economic connection with Sub-Saharan Africa in an attempt to destabilize the worldwide oil market


contain communism by supporting weak western European countries economically to create an environment for thriving democracies and free markets


encourage all rebuilding countries to self-determine (vote) for whether they wanted to rebuild as a communist nation or a democratic nation


contain communism by occupying all Western Europe and challenge the USSR directly if they made any attempts to influence the rebuilding of Europe

Answer 1

The correct option is the second statement.

The Marshall Plan ends up supplying roughly $13 billion dollars to countries in Western Europe to ensure that they create a free market society that is similar to the structure of the United States.This plan helped create economic stability in these countries in the late 1940's and early 1950's. This help made it so that these nations didn't fall under the control of the Soviet Union and their communist style of government and their command style economy.