Question

Why did the united states devise the marshall plan, which gave about $13 billion in grants and loans to nations in western europe?

Answer 1

The answer to your question is to provide food to reduce famine, fuel to heat houses and factories, and money to jump-start economic growth. 

Answer 2

The US drafted the Marshall Plan to help rebuild Eastern European countries after the Second World War.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Marshall Plan, a deepening of the Truman Doctrine, officially known as the European Recovery Program, was the main plan of the United States for the reconstruction of the allied countries of Europe in the years following World War II.

The Marshall Plan was a US economic aid to Eastern European countries (capitalists) to rebuild after the Second World War. The aim was to prevent the people from passing on necessity and claiming socialism, which would mean more countries allied to the USSR and less to the US, which would lose market and its hegemony over those countries.