Explain why the USA gave financial aid to European countries after 1945​

According to https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/george-marshall-calls-for-aid-to-europe

" First, the economic chaos of Western Europe was providing a prime breeding ground for the growth of communism. Second, the U.S. economy, which was quickly returning to a civilian state after several years of war, needed the markets of Western Europe in order to sustain itself."

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America gave financial support to Europe through the Marshall Plan specifically to help them recover from WWII. Much of Germany was destroyed by the Allies. America who was largely untouched by the war was in position to help rebuild

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He restricted citizens' personal rights and freedoms.

He held absolute power as a totalitarian dictator.

Joseph Stalin (1878 – 1953) was a revolutionary politician who led the Soviet Union as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–1952) and Premier(1941–1953). He first managed a collective leadership among equals, but he eventually built enough power to become the country's dictator by the 1930s.