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Outline the cirumstances leading to adoption of Marshall Plan.

  • UPSC 2018
  • The World after World War II

By 1947, two years after the guns fell silent, Western Europe remained economically prostrate — and it was this continued crisis, not the war itself, that forced Washington's hand.

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  • Europe's Continuing Economic Crisis, 1945-47
  • Fear That Economic Desperation Would Fuel Communism
  • Kennan's and Marshall's Strategic Thinking
  • The Paris Conference and European Response
  • The Soviet Rejection and Its Consequences
  • Assessing the Plan's Adoption and Impact

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