Answer: All those countries that accepted the aid and were not related to communism or a dictatorship
The <u>Marshall Plan</u> (originally called the European Recovery Program, ERP) was announced by George Marshall, who was the United States Secretary of State in 1947.
The purpose of this plan was to <u>help economically the European countries after the end of the Second World War</u> and to <u>prevent the growth of the communist </u>movement that was gaining ground in post-war <u>Occidental Europe.
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Russia (then called the Soviet Union) immediately declined aid and ordered its allied countries to decline as well, considering it an imperialist strategy to seize the country's economic independence.
However, 18 countries accepted this aid, which was approved by the US Congress in April 1948 and lasted for 5 years:
<h2>West Germany, Austria, Belgium and Luxembourg, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Iceland, Italy and Trieste, Norway, the Netherlands, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey.
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It should be noted that Spain, which was under Franco's dictatorship, was excluded from the recovery plan.
