"So as long as there are men, there will be wars."
- Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein is absolutely correct, and if he appended his saying, he just might add that so long as there are wars, there are men who will also make reparations (, it may also be the same men who destroyed your country). The purpose of this paper is to discuss the Marshall Plan; the plan to restore a leveled Europe from severe bombardment of World War II. More specifically, why the Plan was implemented and how it was implemented. As with any important assignment, it is important to gather a history of each of the countries and occurrences that led to the formation of the Marshall Plan.
In 1945, after six devastating years of war, Europe's major cities such as Warsaw, Poland, and Berlin, Germany, were left in ruins from the assaults of World War II bombardments.
One of a number of posters created by the Economic...
English: West Berlin, Germany. Marshall Plan aid t...
First page of the Marshall PlanIf cities had not been leveled, they were certainly damaged quite badly. Immediately following the war, the European economy had declined so much due to the fact that industrial cities were targets from the Nazi regime, and of course, for the Allied forces, all German controlled cities were bombarded with aerial assaults to cripple the Nazi's regeneration of vital supplies; factories that created goods for the war effort such as vehicles, weapons and food. A successful war strategy in a war of attrition, means that one country must eliminate their enemy's ability to re-mobilize and regenerate their supplies and numbers. As a result of Europe being the battleground, many millions of survivors of WWII had been without residence. No food, and the little help from the United States at the time was still not enough to keep Europeans from starvation. Of course England and France had better conditions...