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The Marshall Plan was originally scheduled to end in 1953. Any effort to extend it was halted by the growing cost of the Korean War and rearmament. American Republicans hostile to the plan had also gained seats in the 1950 Congressional elections, and conservative opposition to the plan was revived. Thus the plan ended in 1951, though various ...
The Mutual Security Act of 1951 was the successor to the Mutual Defense Assistance Act and the Economic Cooperation Act of 1949, which administered the Marshall plan. It became law on 10 October 1951, and created a new, independent agency, the Mutual Security Administration, to supervise all foreign aid programs including military assistance ...
George C. Marshall. On 5 June 1947, George C. Marshall, at the time Secretary of State of the United States of America, gave an address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he proposed a plan to aid European recovery after the events of World War II, in the form of financial and economic assistance from the United States.
Awareness of the Marshall Plan was already rising from July to December 1947, but the committee felt the need to propagandize. To sway public opinion, the committee advertised, issued various documents (press releases, editorials, policy papers), sponsored radio broadcasts, hired speakers bureaus.
The Marshall Plan began in 1947-48 to help restore the European economy, modernize it, remove internal tariffs and barriers, and encourage European collaboration. It was funded by a multi-year, $25 billion appropriation from the Republican-controlled Congress, despite opposition from a conservative isolationist wing of the party.
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The situation in Gaza necessitates a robust and comprehensive approach akin to the historic Marshall Plan that helped reconstruct a devastated Europe after World War II. But unlike the Marshall ...
The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Russian: Сове́т Экономи́ческой Взаимопо́мощи, romanized: Sovét Ekonomícheskoy Vzaimopómoshchi, Russian: СЭВ, romanized: SEV; English abbreviation COMECON, CMEA, CEMA, or CAME) was an economic organization from 1949 to 1991 under the leadership of the Soviet Union that comprised the countries of the Eastern Bloc ...