In this activity, you will determine which countries received financial assistance through the Marshall plan.

Look over the chart and map below to read information about how much financial assistance individual countries in Western Europe were given under the Marshall Plan, and answer the questions below.

A chart looking at Marshall Plan aid by country by year. Source: Marshall Plan expenditures, Wikipedia
Source: Marshall Plan Aid to Europe, 1948-1952, Wikispaces
  1. Which countries got the most assistance?
  2. What is surprising about some of the countries that got assistance? Think back to the period/events preceding the Marshall Plan.
  3. Taking into account information presented in previous activities, why do you think the United States was so eager to support so many eastern European countries and Turkey?

In your notes, explain which country you would have given the most to if you were in charge of the Marshall Plan? Why? In your opinion, do you think the Marshall Plan effectively contained communism to Eastern Europe?