marshall plan

What if Marshall plan instead of foreign aid was wallstreet loans like the dawes plan was? How much influence will US get on Economies of western Europe ?

Hello all, So, back in the late 1940s (shortly after World War II), there was a fringe political party in Italy called the Italian Unionist Movement, which had the goal of joining the US as a state. It was hoped that this would strengthen both nations, and that the US would become a world...

With the Marshall Plan never becoming a reality, would the Morgenthau plan (or a less extreme modified version) be put into place? Would Germany just be denied any aid and left in ruins? What would be the Soviet policy in the East?

Whilst not actually a part of the plan, it simply makes for a useful shorthand, the US did make a number of grants and loans to countries outside Europe in the Middle East and Asia. Australia didn't suffer any great damage domestically during WWII but it did spend a lot of money funding their...

So let’s just say that some of the main scientists for the Manhattan Project die in a plane or car crash. Operation Downfall is launched, US casualties are over two times what they were IOTL, comfortably placing it above the American Civil War as the bloodiest war the US has ever fought. Truman...

What if there was no Marshall Plan? Say the isolationists win out in the US, or the idea is dismissed as too expensive? What would happen to europe be in this TL? How would the cold war go, if it happens at all?

Suppose there are no overarching Marshall Plan aid as OTL.What would happen to the European colonies,especially the wars in DEI/Indonesia and Indochina?How much is the Marshall Plan helped them,or apparently in the case of the Dutch,a cudgel to pressure their retreat OTL?

What if the Marshall Plan never took place? Would communist rise in West Europe? The most likely would be France wouldn't it. How would they relationship to other nations like Britain and America be? How would French decolonisation take place with a communist government? For example would Ho Chi...

The challenge is to have Spain's Car Industry from the post-war onwards to be roughly comparable to its neighbors in Italy and France by the time of the Spanish transition to democracy. Apart from an earlier Pact of Madrid (with American aid in reality being comparable what its European...

New Marshall Plan After the fall of the Soviet Union, the West creates new plan to help the former block of the East The former Soviet Union and Eastern European nations. Receive money and trade agreements in exchange for Russia and the rest of the Eastern bloc to join the European Union and...

Say in the early 1990s the United States were to provide Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union with funds from a Second Marshall Plan in order to help them economically rebuild. How much money would be needed for this task? What are the odds of this package passing? What effect would this have...