HIS344Y1 Lecture Notes - Marshall Plan, Atlantic Charter
Document Summary
Europe devastated by wwii, germany was reaching starvation. There was an understanding that russia would be compensated for helping and be compensated for the damages from germany. West germany particularly was in bad shape, they had starving people and no other states could help due to financial issues. When the standard of living in germany dropped below eating 1000 calories a day. Starvation was such a serious issue that they needed to find a way to help or else they would rise up and start another war. The british voluntarily removed themselves from the east of. They placed the responsibility on helping germany on the united states. Americans had to hold up the western parts of. They understood that this required a large amount of money to do. At this time congress was taken over by republicans , and they wanted to make large cuts to the government.
