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<注意>國(guó)家名大寫
hints：Soviet Union
Marshall Plan
After World War Two, many empires fell and many civil wars occurred. The United States wanted stability, democracy and open trade. Because it feared that postwar economic weakness would increase the popularity of communism, the U.S. offered European nations including the Soviet Union large sums of money to repair the war damage and help their economies. The Soviet Union and the communist nations of Eastern Europe turned down the offer. By 1952, through a program to rebuild Western Europe (called the Marshall Plan), the United States had invested $13.3 billion.
二戰(zhàn)后，許多帝國(guó)落敗，出現(xiàn)了大量的內(nèi)戰(zhàn)。美國(guó)希望有一個(gè)穩(wěn)定，民主和自由貿(mào)易的格局，因?yàn)樗ε聭?zhàn)后經(jīng)濟(jì)的衰退會(huì)導(dǎo)致共產(chǎn)主義的人口擴(kuò)大，因此，美國(guó)提供了包括蘇聯(lián)在內(nèi)的歐洲國(guó)家大量的金錢來(lái)修復(fù)戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)對(duì)其造成的損失，并幫助他們復(fù)蘇經(jīng)濟(jì)。蘇聯(lián)和東歐的共產(chǎn)主義國(guó)家都拒絕了美國(guó)的幫助。直到1952年，美國(guó)通過(guò)一個(gè)重建西歐的計(jì)劃（也被稱作馬歇爾計(jì)劃）向其投資了133億美元。