Berlin was also split into four and each of the four above also had their own sections of Berlin- however the Capitalists (USA, UK & France) all banded together to make a stronger nation, making their own new currency and building the economy from scratch; this is what triggered the Berlin Blockade & Airlift
the Marshall Plan(also known as The European Recovery Program) was an american initiative passed in 1948 to aid western Europe. the amount which USA paid was about 12billion dollars in economic assistance.