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AP Success - AP European History: Marshall Plan

The excerpt is the opening text of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1948, which is also known as the Marshall Plan, named after Secretary of State George Marshall. The Marshall Plan was a U.S. initiative to aid Western Europe in rebuilding their economies after World War II.

Source 1

Eightieth Congress of the United States of America
At the Second Session

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, the sixth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight

An Act 
To promote world peace and the general welfare, national interest, and foreign policy of the United States through economic-financial and other measures necessary to the maintenance of the conditions abroad in which free institutions may survive and consistent with the maintenance of the strength and stability of the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Foreign Assistance Act of 1948".

The Marshall Plan, 1948

Question 1

Short answer

Describe one goal of the Marshall Plan expressed in the excerpt.

Question 2

Short answer

Describe one way in which the Marshall Plan changed Europe economically.

Question 3

Short answer

Explain one way the United States attempted to strengthen Western Europe outside of the Marshall Plan.

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