Question

How did the soviet union and its Satellite states react to the Marshall Plan? How might their reaction have influenced the development of the U.S. policy of containment? (satellite states, policy of containment)

Answer 1

Rejected the plan--At the directive of the USSR, the Soviet Union and their satellite countries rejected the economic help of the Marshall Plan. 

Creating a sphere of influence the Marshall Plan ended up supporting democratic countries and the Soviet Union installed communism within their satellite nations. The West saw this as a threat and the spread of communism which would lead to the creation of NATO to protect Western nations.