Post-WWII Europe: Marshall Plan vs Morgenthau Plan (1947)
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The US debated how to treat post-war Europe. The Morgenthau Plan would deindustrialize Germany. The Marshall Plan offered massive economic aid to rebuild all of Western Europe, including Germany.
Marshall Plan (Rebuild Europe)
1947
year
$13 billion in aid to rebuild
approach
Enormous but created trading partners
cost
Chosen — European economic miracle, NATO alliance
outcome
Morgenthau Plan (Deindustrialize Germany)
1944
year
Strip Germany of industry, make it agricultural
approach
Low direct cost, enormous indirect cost
cost
Briefly adopted then abandoned — would have starved millions
outcome
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