The Soviet Response to the Marshall Plan Was

question 62

Multiple Choice

The Soviet response to the Marshall plan was

• A) to eagerly embrace its offer of economic assistance.
• B) to reject it because it was an example of American economic and political imperialism.
• C) cautiously accept it but with the proviso that no aid should be given to Germany because of the latter's responsibility for causing World War II.
• D) accept aid for the Soviet Union but not to the other nations under Soviet control.
• E) establish its own equally-funded aid program.

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