What Was the Soviet Response to the Marshall Plan

question 60

Multiple Choice

What was the Soviet response to the Marshall Plan?

• 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

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