The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred $13.3 billion (equivalent to $173.8 billion in 2024) in economic recovery programs to Western European economies after the end of World War II.

2025年1月17日 · Marshall Plan, formally European Recovery Program (1948–51), U.S.-sponsored program advocated by Secretary of State George C. Marshall to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to create stable conditions in which democratic institutions could survive.

2009年12月16日 · The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II.

2022年6月29日 · On April 3, 1948, President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan, named for Secretary of State George Marshall, who in 1947 proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe.

On May 8, 1947, Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson stood before a board of farmers and businessmen gathered in a small town in the middle of the Mississippi Delta, ready to unveil the blueprint for one of the most significant strategic actions of the early Cold War: The Marshall Plan.

2023年4月6日 · The Marshall Plan was a U.S.-sponsored program implemented following the end of World War II, granting $13 billion in foreign aid to European countries that had been devastated...

Below are links to resources related to the background and operation of the Marshall Plan. These include primary sources (documents, speeches, films, videos, and interviews) as well as commentaries on the Plan that place it in helpful historical context.

2023年5月15日 · What was the Marshall Plan? Marshall believed that the key to rebuilding Europe was to prioritize larger, more industrial countries. As these countries recovered, he believed others would benefit from the windfall. In his book, The Marshall Plan: Fifty Years After, Martin Schain noted three countries were granted over half of the over $12 ...

In 1947, Secretary of State George C. Marshall grew increasingly concerned about the situation in Europe. He assembled a team of experts to develop ideas for helping European nations recover from World War II. The recovery was to be funded by the U.S., and it …

1997年1月6日 · The Marshall Plan was proposed in a speech by Secretary of State George Marshall at Harvard University in June 1947, in response to the critical political, social, and economic conditions in which Europe found itself at that time.