AQA GCSE History · 8145
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Revise: The Iron CurtainThe resulting Marshall Plan, also known as Marshall Aid, provided economic assistance to help European countries recover from the Second World War.
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GCSE History · key term
An American programme of economic assistance to European countries after the Second World War, intended to support recovery and reduce the appeal of communism.
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Paper 1
Revise: The Iron CurtainThe resulting Marshall Plan, also known as Marshall Aid, provided economic assistance to help European countries recover from the Second World War.
Paper 2
An American economic aid programme announced in 1947 to rebuild European economies after the Second World War and reduce the appeal of communism.
Revise: Development of the Cold WarAlso announced in 1947, the Marshall Plan was named after US Secretary of State George Marshall. It offered billions of dollars in aid to help European countries recover from wartime destruction.
Paper 1
An American programme of economic assistance to help European recovery and support containment, proposed in 1947 and implemented from 1948. It was named after Secretary of State George Marshall.
Revise: Soviet Expansion in Eastern Europe and US ContainmentThe Marshall Plan, proposed in 1947 and implemented from 1948, provided an economic means of supporting containment. It was named after George Marshall, the US Secretary of State, and is also known as Marshall Aid.
Distinguish the Truman Doctrine’s wider commitment to containment from the Marshall Plan’s programme of economic assistance.
Distinguish the Truman Doctrine’s commitment to resist communism from the Marshall Plan’s economic aid programme.
Distinguish the Truman Doctrine, a commitment to containment, from the Marshall Plan, the economic aid programme that supported it.
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