The last time the United States gave a Europe such substantial financial backing, President Harry Truman was trying to rebuild a continent ravaged by the Second World War. It was 1947, and the was trying to persuade a weary population mourning the deaths of 470,000 American troops that other countries destroyed by war needed aid to rebuild and fight off the ongoing threat from Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union.The United States would provide support in the form of the $13 billion Marshall Plan - which was worth $160 billion in today's money - and the Truman Doctrine.
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