Technically, when people are attacked by their own government, or when they are denied equal access to education, it is the job of their fellow citizens to protect them, since the citizens should always rise up and demand justice when a government acts tyrannically.
The most significant result of the Marshall plan was that it helped revive and protect war-torn and impoverished countries that were under threat of a communist takeover, since this was during the beginning of the Cold War, when the US was trying to "contain" communism.
A public execution by guillotine
