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Maria Brown

The Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift and Containment all went hand and hand with the avoidance of communism in the US. Marshall Plan “gave $13 billion in economic aid to European nations” (OpenStax, 2019). This plan was Truman’s way of encouraging the nations to work together and encouraging spending the money on American products. This would help the Americans as well. The Soviet Union did not utilize this plan, other nations receiving the aid began to recover from the economic downfall. Soviet Union did not only avoid aid from the US in the form of money, but also tried to cut off assistance via materials being delivered to West Berlin by water or land. The United States and other countries decided to fly materials in, this became known as the Berlin Airlift. These plans were to keep communism from spreading to neighboring nations, they would aid the weaker nations and keep them from having to depend on the Soviet Union, this was known as containment (OpenStax, 2019).

The fear of international communism was real. The country had just gone through hard times and were just recovering. The people were probably in fear of what was to come next. While the U.S was supporting the South Koreans trying to avoid communism, they had to withdrawal and failed to prevent communism. This same thing happened later with the Cuban. The United States was unsuccessful in supporting the other nations, it would appear it was only a matter of time before they would lose the fight and communism could take over the United States (Rosa, 2022).

References:

OpenStax. (2019).  U.S. history. OpenStax CNX. Retrievedfrom  https://cnx.org/contents/[email protected]:gMXC1GEM@7/Introduction Links to an external site.

Rosa, L. (2022).  Containment and the Truman policy. Students of History. Retrieved October 10, 2022, from https://www.studentsofhistory.com/containment-the-truman-policy