Question

This speech excerpt reflects the ideals of which policy?

The truth of the matter is that Europe's requirements for the next 3 or 4 years of foreign food and other essential products — principally from America — are so much greater than her present ability to pay that she must have substantial additional help, or face economic, social, and political deterioration of a very grave character. . . .

. . . It is logical that the United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace.1

—George Marshall, June 5, 1947

A.
Warsaw Pact

B.
Molotov Plan

C.
Marshall Plan

D.
Truman Doctrine

Answer 1

The correct answer is C.

Embodied within the foreign policy approach that aimed to contain the spread of communism worlwide, the US launched the Marshall Plan initiative, and sent financial aid to help rebuild Western European countries.

In turn, this behaviour would set an alliance with Western Europe, that would side with the US against the expansion of the URSS, that had already turned many Eastern European countries into Soviet republics, soon after the end of WWII.