the United States for rebuilding the allied countries of Europe after World War II
One of the main reasons this was done was to stop communism
It was enacted in 1948 and provided more than $15 billion to help finance rebuilding efforts on the continent. The brainchild of U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall, for whom it was named, it was crafted as a four-year plan to reconstruct cities, industries and infrastructure heavily damaged during the war and to remove trade barriers between European neighbors—as well as foster commerce between those countries and the United States.
since the Ottoman Empire controlled the Bosporus Strait and had a strong economy, they helped interconnect Afroeurasia. the place was also a center of Islam, which attracted people from different parts of the world to the city of Istanbul.
