The Marshall Plan

question 16

Multiple Choice

The Marshall Plan

• A) used currency reserves from member nations to finance temporary trade deficits.
• B) launched a process of economic cooperation and integration.
• C) provided 20 billion dollars in economic aid to friendly European countries by 1961.
• D) was never enacted due to partisan political feuds in Congress.
• E) helped to rebuild Japan.

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