Marshall Plan

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|How did the Marshall plan influence the development of Great Britain and other Western European countries after the Second World War? |
|History internal assessment |
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Contents:
PLAN OF INVESTIGATION 3

SUMMARY OF EVIDENCE 3

EVALUATION OF SOURCES 5

ANALYSIS 6

CONCLUSION 9

BILBIOGRAPHY 10

PLAN OF INVESTIGATION

The aim of this internal assessment is to determine the influence of European Recovery Program to the development of the Western Europe after the Second World War. In order to evaluate the influence of Marshall Plan, the investigation figures the wastages Western Europe suffered after the war, the dilapidation of different regions of Europe and general situation after the Second World War. Oral history – speeches are mostly used to evaluate the origins of the Marshall Plan. Then the Marshall aid itself is presented, looked from the perspective of different countries. Two of the sources used in the internal assessment, The Marshall Plan, compiled by Allen Welsh Dulles and Modern Britain written by Sean Glynn and Alan Booth, are then evaluated for their origins, purposes, values and limitations. (127)

SUMMARY OF EVIDENCE

In order to determine the importance as well as origins of the Marshall Plan, it is vital to understand the vastness of havocs caused by the Second World War on the grounds of European countries.

All states were destroyed by the war, i.e. Great Britain: “Britain had