Marshall Plan

Marshall Plan definition - finance
A plan put forth by George C. Marshall Jr. to rebuild postwar Europe. The plan called for giving about $12 billion of U.S. aid to Western Europe in the late 1940s. Marshall won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953, the only professional soldier ever given that award.

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