It was the Marshall Plan, are there other answer choices for the second part of the question?
A for sure, I'm pretty sure.
The answer is that early on the English were looking for a "Northwest Passage". This would be a shorter trade route to East Asia. For a long time it was believed that there was a large body of water in North America that would lead to the Orient. The English were interested in the raw materials that they could find in North America, including the islands of the Caribbean.
This is true because even if that grandparent was to change from Jewish to Christianity they would still be considered Jewish and the Nazis thought it was passed down to the grandchildren.