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Loan gurantees is one thing. American troops and straight cash allotments is something totally different.
Oh, and we gave to the Japanese as well.
I know about the Dawes Plan...but the Dawes Plan was how to deal with reparations. The Marshall Plan repudiated reparations, a basic fundamental in post-war outcomes for centirues, and instead instuted a totally new approach.
The Dawes Plan was how to mitigate a punishment. The Marshall Plan was how to get Europe, as well as our adversaries, back on their feet so they would not longer be adversaries.
It may have been a continuation of ideas...but Truman's Administration put it into practical effect, and stayed the hand of further damage to the German economy by stopping the European Allies, priamrily the French, with the Petersburg Agreement, which set the framework for the Bonn-Paris Conventions.
Without the Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan and Petersburg Agreemnt, you don;t get there.
And the US had NEVER been that involved in our history to that level to aid Allies as well as a former foe.
Loan gurantees is one thing. American troops and straight cash allotments is something totally different.
Oh, and we gave to the Japanese as well.
I know about the Dawes Plan...but the Dawes Plan was how to deal with reparations. The Marshall Plan repudiated reparations, a basic fundamental in post-war outcomes for centirues, and instead instuted a totally new approach.
The Dawes Plan was how to mitigate a punishment. The Marshall Plan was how to get Europe, as well as our adversaries, back on their feet so they would not longer be adversaries.
It may have been a continuation of ideas...but Truman's Administration put it into practical effect, and stayed the hand of further damage to the German economy by stopping the European Allies, priamrily the French, with the Petersburg Agreement, which set the framework for the Bonn-Paris Conventions.
Without the Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan and Petersburg Agreemnt, you don;t get there.
And the US had NEVER been that involved in our history to that level to aid Allies as well as a former foe.
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