Question

The Marshall Plan benefited the United States as well as western Europe because

Answer 1

C.  The Marshall plan was beneficial to everyone,

Answer 2

The correct answer is C. The name of the economic rescue plan is due to the US Secretary General George Marshall, who developed the economic aid plan for sixteen European countries devastated by the Second World War.

One of the objectives of the plan was to prevent the European insolvency that would have had disastrous consequences for the North American economy due to the financial impossibility in Europe to buy North American products.