Why did the united states devise the marshall plan, which gave about $13 billion in grants and loans to nations in western europe?

The US drafted the Marshall Plan to help rebuild Eastern European countries after the Second World War.

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The Marshall Plan, a deepening of the Truman Doctrine, officially known as the European Recovery Program, was the main plan of the United States for the reconstruction of the allied countries of Europe in the years following World War II.

The Marshall Plan was a US economic aid to Eastern European countries (capitalists) to rebuild after the Second World War. The aim was to prevent the people from passing on necessity and claiming socialism, which would mean more countries allied to the USSR and less to the US, which would lose market and its hegemony over those countries.

The French and Indian war was the event that provoked the American Revolution. The French and Indian war or Seven years war, lead to certain events that caused Americans to realize that their English liberties were being denied.

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