Marshall Plan

The Marshall Plan, known officially following its enactment as the European Recovery Program (ERP), was the main plan of the United States for the reconstruction of Europe following World War II. The initiative was named for United States Secretary of State George Marshall and was largely the creation of State Department officials including William L. Clayton and George F. Kennan.

References

• Arkes, Hadley. Bureaucracy, the Marshall Plan, and the National Interest. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1972.
• Economic Growth in Europe Since 1945. edited by Nicholas Crafts and Gianni Toniolo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
• Hogan, Michael J. The Marshall Plan: America, Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947-1952. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
• The Marshall Plan: Fifty Years After. edited by Martin Schain. New York: Palgrave, 2001.
• Mee, Charles L. The Marshall Plan: the Launching of the Pax Americana. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984.
• Milward, Alan S. The Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1945-51. London: Methuen, 1984.