What was the major similarity between the Marshall Plan and the Molotov plan?

The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union (aka satellite state). It was originally called the "Brother Plan" in the Soviet Union. It can be seen to be the Soviet Union's version of the Marshall Plan, which for political reasons the Eastern European countries would not be able to join without leaving the Soviet sphere of influence. Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov rejected the Marshall Plan (1947), proposing instead the Molotov Plan—the Soviet-sponsored economic grouping which was eventually expanded to become the Comecon.[1]

The Molotov Plan was symbolic of the Soviet Union's refusal to accept aid from the Marshall Plan, or allow any of their satellite states to do so because of their belief that the Marshall Plan was an attempt to weaken Soviet interest in their satellite states through the conditions imposed and by making beneficiary countries economically dependent on the United States (officially, one of the goals of the Marshall Plan was to prevent the spread of Communism). The plan was a system of bilateral trade agreements which also established Comecon to create an economic alliance of socialist countries.[2] This aid allowed countries in Europe to stop relying on American aid and therefore allowed Molotov Plan states to reorganize their trade to the Soviet Union instead.[3] The plan was in some ways contradictory because while the Soviets were giving aid to Eastern Bloc countries, at the same time they were demanding that countries who were members of the Axis powers (many of them Eastern Bloc countries themselves or a predecessor to an Eastern Bloc country) pay reparations to the Soviet Union.

List of nations which took part in the Molotov Plan

• Soviet Union
• Poland
• Czechoslovakia
• Hungary
• Romania
• Bulgaria
• East Germany

References

1. ^ "CNN Cold War - Profile: Vyacheslav Mikhaylovic Molotov". Archived 19 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
2. ^ "World History Study Guide - 17.2 The Cold War between 1945 and 1947".
3. ^ "A Look back at the Marshall Plan". Archived 15 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine

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With the United States and Soviet Union having conflict with each other, it was difficult for each other to confront on the battlefield due to threats occurring for years. Not only were there threats against one another, but there was also struggle politically and economically. In order to build an economy with Europe and contain it within the Soviet Union, the Marshall Plan was passed to help the European countries. Also, the Molotov Plan was created by the Soviet Minister to help with the country. In other words, both the Marshall Plan and Molotov Plan came together as one to create plans to weaken the economy in other countries that were their enemies. There are several similarities, along with differences, between the Soviet Leaders and

• The Molotov Plan is pretty straightforward. While the Marshall Plan was, in part, created to stop the spread of communism, the Molotov Plan was there to encourage it. Money from the Soviet Union could be used to prop up nascent communist states in a similar way that the money from the Marshall Plan was attempting to rebuild western-style democracies.

  In terms of which one was more successful, look at the list of Molotov Plan countries. Not a single one of them is still communist. However, the countries the United States helped out are doing great and are among our most loyal allies.

• The Morgenthau Plan (named after Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau) was created before Germany surrendered, but after the writing was on the wall that Germany was going to. Essentially, the idea was the opposite of the Marshall Plan.

  The most important part from a military strategy standpoint was the removal of Germany's ability to wage war. If this meant destroying its economy, that was totally fine. Germany was going to be cut in half, all of its industrial machinery closed, and industrial centers either given to neighboring countries or just to the world at large.

  Oh yeah, and the person in charge of the country would be a military governor who could pretty much do whatever.

  Really, the Morgenthau Plan didn't end up being that important in the scope of history. It was replaced by JCS 1779, which dialed back the putative parts of the Morgenthau Plan with an aim toward making Germany stable, productive, and not doing the exact same thing that led to Hitler's rise. From there, they went to the Marshall Plan.

  As for why all the plans have M names? Total coincidence. Weird though, right?

• U.S. foreign policy from about 1945 to 1989 revolved round fighting the Soviet Union without actually fighting the Soviet Union. There are two reasons for this. First, both Napoleon and Hitler proved that invading Russia is only slightly more productive than hitting yourself on the head with a hammer. The second is that the Soviet Union got nuclear weapons in 1949 and any war would be the apocalypse.

  If the Marshall Plan was the opening salvo against the Soviet Union, President Reagan presided over the end. Some will say that he singlehandedly won the Cold War, but it's more accurate to say he built on what others did.

  Under Reagan, the plan was spending. Essentially, the US kicked military spending into high gear, producing tons of both conventional and nuclear weapons. The Soviet Union had to keep up, or they could be annihilated. Whoever could spend more would win. That was the U.S. The fallout of this, unfortunately, was a ton of nuclear weapons in a state whose government was falling down around its ears.

  But, hey, no more Soviet Union.

  The main significance of the Reagan Doctrine as opposed to the old model as this was a shift from the accommodation of Bohlen or the containment of some other thinkers. Reagan was all about rollback. He wanted places that were either communist or socialist (he didn't always differentiate, even though there's a vast difference), to not be.

  This created one of the largest features of the Reagan Doctrine: the support of right wing guerrilla armies around the globe who were either fighting the Soviets or any kind of communist, socialist, or left wing government. This included the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, the contras in Nicaragua, and UNITA in Angola. Effectively, this made the U.S. involved in the civil wars of other countries, either supplying money, materiel, or training to whichever side was more right wing.

Answer this question… One was used to promote democracy, while the other was used to promote communism.

In June 1947, in accordance with the Truman Doctrine, the United States enacted the Marshall Plan. This was a pledge of economic assistance for all European countries willing to participate, including the Soviet Union, who refused and created their own Molotov plan for the Eastern Bloc.

Distinguish between the Marshall Plan and the Molotov Plan

Key Points

• In early 1947, Britain, France, and the United States unsuccessfully attempted to reach an agreement with the Soviet Union for a plan envisioning an economically self-sufficient Germany.
• In June 1947, in accordance with the Truman Doctrine, the United States enacted the Marshall Plan, a pledge of economic assistance for all European countries willing to participate, including the Soviet Union.
• The years 1948 to 1952 saw the fastest period of growth in European history; industrial production increased by 35%, some of which has been attributed to the Marshall Plan aid.
• The Soviet Union refused the aid because Stalin believed that economic integration with the West would allow Eastern Bloc countries to escape Soviet control.
• In response, the Soviet Union created the Molotov Plan, later expanded into the COMECON, a system of bilateral trade agreements and an economic alliance between socialist countries in the Eastern Bloc.

Molotov Plan The system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. National Security Act of 1947 A bill that brought about a major restructuring of the United States government’s military and intelligence agencies following World War; it established the National Security Council, a central place of coordination for national security policy in the executive branch, and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the U.S.’s first peacetime intelligence agency Marshall Plan An American initiative to aid Western Europe in which the United States gave more than $12 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.

In early 1947, Britain, France, and the United States unsuccessfully attempted to reach an agreement with the Soviet Union for an economically self-sufficient Germany, including a detailed accounting of the industrial plants, goods, and infrastructure already removed by the Soviets. In June 1947, in accordance with the Truman Doctrine, the United States enacted the Marshall Plan, a pledge of economic assistance for all European countries willing to participate, including the Soviet Union.

The plan’s aim was to rebuild the democratic and economic systems of Europe and counter perceived threats to Europe’s balance of power, such as communist parties seizing control through revolutions or elections. The plan also stated that European prosperity was contingent upon German economic recovery. One month later, Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947, creating a unified Department of Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the National Security Council (NSC). These would become the main bureaucracies for U.S. policy in the Cold War.

Stalin believed that economic integration with the West would allow Eastern Bloc countries to escape Soviet control, and that the U.S. was trying to buy a pro-U.S. realignment of Europe. Stalin therefore prevented Eastern Bloc nations from receiving Marshall Plan aid. The Soviet Union’s alternative to the Marshall plan, purported to involve Soviet subsidies and trade with central and eastern Europe, became known as the Molotov Plan (later institutionalized in January 1949 as the COMECON). Stalin was also fearful of a reconstituted Germany; his vision of a post-war Germany did not include the ability to rearm or pose any kind of threat to the Soviet Union.

In early 1948, following reports of strengthening “reactionary elements”, Soviet operatives executed a coup d’état in Czechoslovakia, the only Eastern Bloc state that the Soviets had permitted to retain democratic structures. The public brutality of the coup shocked Western powers and set in a motion a brief scare that swept away the last vestiges of opposition to the Marshall Plan in the United States Congress.

The twin policies of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan led to billions in economic and military aid for Western Europe, Greece, and Turkey. With U.S. assistance, the Greek military won its civil war. Under the leadership of Alcide De Gasperi the Italian Christian Democrats defeated the powerful Communist-Socialist alliance in the elections of 1948. At the same time, there was increased intelligence and espionage activity, Eastern Bloc defections, and diplomatic expulsions.

Marshall Plan

The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion (approximately $120 billion in value as of June 2016) in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. The plan was in operation for four years beginning April 8, 1948. The goals of the United States were to rebuild war-devastated regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, make Europe prosperous again, and prevent the spread of communism. The Marshall Plan required a lessening of interstate barriers, saw a decrease in regulations, and encouraged an increase in productivity, labor union membership, and the adoption of modern business procedures.

The Marshall Plan aid was divided among the participant states on a per capita basis. A larger amount was given to the major industrial powers, as the prevailing opinion was that their resuscitation was essential for general European revival. Somewhat more aid per capita was also directed towards the Allied nations, with less for those that had been part of the Axis or remained neutral. The largest recipient of Marshall Plan money was the United Kingdom (receiving about 26% of the total), followed by France (18%) and West Germany (11%). Some 18 European countries received Plan benefits. Although offered participation, the Soviet Union refused Plan benefits and blocked benefits to Eastern Bloc countries such as East Germany and Poland.

The years 1948 to 1952 saw the fastest period of growth in European history. Industrial production increased by 35%. Agricultural production substantially surpassed pre-war levels. The poverty and starvation of the immediate postwar years disappeared, and Western Europe embarked upon an unprecedented two decades of growth during which standards of living increased dramatically. There is some debate among historians over how much this should be credited to the Marshall Plan. Most reject the idea that it alone miraculously revived Europe, as evidence shows that a general recovery was already underway. Most believe that the Marshall Plan sped this recovery but did not initiate it. Many argue that the structural adjustments that it forced were of great importance.

The political effects of the Marshall Plan may have been just as important as the economic ones. Marshall Plan aid allowed the nations of Western Europe to relax austerity measures and rationing, reducing discontent and bringing political stability. The communist influence on Western Europe was greatly reduced, and throughout the region communist parties faded in popularity in the years after the Marshall Plan.

Marshall Plan: One of a number of posters created to promote the Marshall Plan in Europe. Note the pivotal position of the American flag.

The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned with the Soviet Union. It can be seen as the USSR’s version of the Marshall Plan, which for political reasons the Eastern European countries would not be able to join without leaving the Soviet sphere of influence. Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov rejected the Marshall Plan (1947), proposing the Molotov Plan – the Soviet-sponsored economic grouping which was eventually expanded to become the COMECON. The Molotov plan was symbolic of the Soviet Union’s refusal to accept aid from the Marshall Plan or allow any of their satellite states to do so because of their belief that the Plan was an attempt to weaken Soviet interest in their satellite states through the conditions imposed and by making beneficiary countries economically dependent on the United States.

The plan was a system of bilateral trade agreements that established COMECON to create an economic alliance of socialist countries. This aid allowed countries in Europe to stop relying on American aid, and therefore allowed Molotov Plan states to reorganize their trade to the USSR instead. The plan was in some ways contradictory, however, because at the same time the Soviets were giving aid to Eastern bloc countries, they were demanding that countries who were members of the Axis powers pay reparations to the USSR.

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