1. The Marshall plan believed that the US must help Europe so that the democracies in Europe would be able to stand after the aftermath of the second world war.
2. The reason why Stalin refused to participate in the Marshall plan was due to the fact that he believed that having an integration with the US would cause Eastern block countries to be under the influence of the US instead of the Soviet.
<h3>What was the Marshall plan?</h3>
This was a plan that wa established after the end of the second world war. The aim of the plan was to help the countries in Europe that were severely hit by the war to regain themselves.
