<span>The goal of the marshall plan was to help
countries resits communism through strong economies. Through the
Marshall plan, the United States gave millions in aid to broken European
countries. </span>
The Marshall Plan - officially called European Recovery Program, ERP - was an initiative of the United States to help Western Europe, in which the Americans gave economic aid worth about 13 billion dollars at the time for the reconstruction of those countries of Europe devastated after the Second World War. The plan was in operation for four years since 1948. The objectives of the United States were to rebuild those areas destroyed by the war, eliminate barriers to trade, modernize European industry and make the continent prosperous again; all these objectives were intended to prevent the spread of communism, which had a large and growing influence in post-war Europe.
Roosevelt supervised the mobilization of the U.S. economy to support the war effort, and implemented a Europe first strategy, making the defeat of Germany a priority over that of Japan.
Capital resources are things that make work easier. Examples of capital resource are machines, factories, tools, and buildings. Whenever a company buys one of these things, they are INVESTING in their business.
Most were located in the Northeast because merchants there had money to invest in new mills. Also, this region had many rivers that provided a reliable supply of power. In the South, investors concentrated on expanding agriculture.
