It helped expand it
Yes
Marshall Plan gave or lend $13 billion to 17 countries.The money was used to rebuild bridges,factories,railroads,hospitals,and schools.
providing economic help to Europe
It was the Marshall Plan.
COMECON, the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, was an economic organization established in 1949 by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European allies. It aimed to promote cooperation and economic integration among its member countries, fostering socialist economic planning and trade relations. The primary goal was to counter the influence of the Marshall Plan in Western Europe and strengthen the economies of the socialist states.
The Soviet Union made COMECON to encourage trade and production among the socialist countries (Made by Stalin in 1949). The sociailst countries with the leadership of and order from the Soviet Union refused the Marshall Plan.
Comecon - band - was created in 1989.
Comecon - band - ended in 1995.
The Marshall Plan was, indeed a loan. No, the Marshall plan was not a loan. It was aid. There were loans made but they were not part of the Marshall Plan itself.
who did not accept the marshall plan
The Marshal Plan was instituted on July 12, 1947.
Marshall Plan
George C. Marshall
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The Marshall Plan helped the West recover faster. under pressure from stalin, eastern europe countries refused aid from the united states
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