Directions
Read the instructions for this self-checked activity. Submit your response to each question and check your answers. At the end of the activity, complete the final item to connect and reflect on your work.
Activity
In this activity, you'll read an excerpt from the Marshall Plan. Then you will examine how various groups felt about the plan. Finally, you will fill out a chart that explains why groups had these perceptions and evaluate the plan's effectiveness.
The Marshall Plan
This is an excerpt from the Marshall Plan. As you read, pay attention to who the speaker believes will benefit from the plan. After this, you'll get to explore how various groups responded to the plan.
The truth of the matter is that Europe's requirements for the next three or four 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.
The remedy lies in breaking the vicious circle and restoring the confidence of the European people in the economic future of their own countries and of Europe as a whole. The manufacturer and the farmer throughout wide areas must be able and willing to exchange their products for currencies the continuing value of which is not open to question.
Part A
In the chart below, examine the reactions of various groups to the Marshall Plan. Then fill out the rest of the chart with an explanation of why the group may have responded the way they did.
Space used (includes formatting): 2642 / 15000
Part B
Answer these questions in two or three sentences: Was the Marshall Plan successful? How did it help participants?
Space used (includes formatting): 0 / 15000
Connect and Reflect
Evaluate your work by answering these questions:
How did this activity help you understand the Marshall Plan?
What would you like to know more about?
*picture is apart of part A*
