Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subtle sort of way of buying the French off by ensuring that German recovery would take place in an integrated European context," Lee says. Historians point to such crafty maneuvering as being exemplary of the genius of the policy...
...Marshall Plan provided the first coherent articulation of what America's role would be, calling on the Europeans themselves to formulate an integrated strategy for recovery. The United States would then provide the necessary resources to meet the European needs...
While the aid was offered to all European nations--including Soviet bloc countries--it was contingent upon each country committing itself to working with each other country, virtually precluding participation by countries under Stalin's control, according to the scholars...
...adds that by requiring all the nations to agree to work together in order to get U.S. aid, the Marshall Plan effectively pulled in the French government which had been the most aggressively anti-German of the victorious European nations...
...Marshall Plan worked because it provided much-needed dollars to European nations, which had a history of industrial development, and strong institutional tradition, Lee says...