presence, underwritten by a reindustrialized capitalist western Germany at the heart of an integrated, capitalist western Europe,” Steil explains. The Marshall Plan “promised a continuing energetic U.S. Marshall’s leadership, formulated the recovery program to provide Europe with a new economic and political architecture appropriate for a continent divided into two worlds: a capitalist and a communist one. Truman’s State Department, under George C. In his new book, The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War, Steil describes how President Harry S. Bringing to bear new Russian and American archival material, Steil shows that it was only after the launch of the plan in 1947 “that both sides, the United States and the Soviet Union, became irrevocably committed to securing their respective spheres of influence.” The Marshall Plan-the costly and ambitious initiative to revive western Europe after World War II-marked the true beginning of the Cold War, argues Benn Steil.
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