Secretary of State Marshall suggested his plan to help rebuild European economies after World War as a way of staving off political instability and poverty conditions, which would become breeding grounds for governments that would go against freedom.
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The "Marshall Plan" was named after the man who then was US Secretary of State, George C. Marshall. Officially the plan was called the European Recovery Program. Marshall announced the plan in 1947, and it went into effect in 1948. The intent was to provide aid and rebuilding to European economies after the damaging effects of World War II.
In his speech introducing the plan, Secretary Marshall presented the plan as aid for any and all nations, saying : "Our policy is not directed against any country, but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Any government that is willing to assist in recovery will find full co-operation on the part of the United States. 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." <em>[I provided more context for the quote you had shown, to see more of his intent in the remarks.]</em>
The view in the communist-controlled Eastern bloc was that the US was trying to use such a policy to spread its influence and threaten their patterns of government under communism. So the plan ended up building allies for the US in Western Europe, while the Eastern European countries sided with the Soviet Union. So it was an example of Cold War tactics of competition between the US and the USSR, apart from the use of military force.
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The Civil War helped the cause of women's suffrage in a couple of different ways. One of these ways was the fact that women had the ability to do the same jobs as men. Since the men were out fighting the war, someone had to step up and take on their jobs, usually the women.
Not only did women take on the male jobs at home, but they also stepped up and helped out on the battlefield. Some of these battlefield jobs included caring for the wounded, providing supplies to the men in the camp, and even some women stepped up and fought on the battlefield.
By showing the men that they were capable of doing the same exact things they were, it backed up the equality aspect in society.
The Freedom Rides and Freedom Summer differed in some ways. The Freedom Rides were aimed at ending segregation, while Freedom Summer was aimed at expanding voting rights.
