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Marshall Plan
After World War Two, many empires fell and many civil wars occurred. The United States wanted stability, democracy and open trade. Because it feared that postwar economic weakness would increase the popularity of communism, the U.S. offered European nations including the Soviet Union large sums of money to repair the war damage and help their economies. The Soviet Union and the communist nations of Eastern Europe turned down the offer. By 1952, through a program to rebuild Western Europe (called the Marshall Plan), the United States had invested $13.3 billion.
二战后，许多帝国落败，出现了大量的内战。美国希望有一个稳定，民主和自由贸易的格局，因为它害怕战后经济的衰退会导致共产主义的人口扩大，因此，美国提供了包括苏联在内的欧洲国家大量的金钱来修复战争对其造成的损失，并帮助他们复苏经济。苏联和东欧的共产主义国家都拒绝了美国的帮助。直到1952年，美国通过一个重建西欧的计划（也被称作马歇尔计划）向其投资了133亿美元。