"Europe's requirements for the next three or four years of foreign food and other essential products-principally from America -a
re so much greater than her present ability to pay that she must have substantial additional help or face economic, social and political deterioration of a very grave character. It is logical that the United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return
of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty
desperation, and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist
Speech by Secretary of State George Marshall initiating the aid program known as the Marshall Plan, 1947
The policies advocated by Marshall had most in common with which of the following developments in other periods in United States history?
