A Marshal Plan after WWI?

Hello I was curious about the affects of a plan that mirrors the Marshal Plan after WWI would have on European history.

To avoid this being classified as asb I'll just say that America wants to further invest in the European Allies with hopes of having better economic allies and that they will eventually pay off the debt as they progress.

Such as building the Allied powers up to better recover economically from the war. Let's also add Germany. I say this because America had done this for Mexico at one point in fear of retribution and a future war with a hostile neighboring country.

Would any of this matter in prevention of world war 2?
 
Actually, there was a sort of weird unofficial Marshall Plan: US banks lent money to Germany which used it to (among other things) pay reparations to France. This was supposed to assist the economic reconstruction of Europe without overt US political involvement. Of course, then came the Depression and default: "Total American losses for 1924-31, following this reasoning, might exceed 8 milliard RM after making the necessary correction for the pass-through of funds of German origin. American losses for the entire Weimar Republic, consequently, may have run as high as 14 milliard RM ($3.5 billion). In price-adjusted terms, this sum approached four times the total assistance that the United States government would provide to West Germany from 1948 to 1952 under the much-heralded Marshall Plan.24 Between the wars, Washington received only negligible amounts in direct reparations and precious little in war-debt repayments to offset the losses of its citizens. Hence the major burden of the capital transfer to Germany in that earlier period fell in one way or another on the American investor and taxpayer..." Stephen A. Schuker, "American 'Reparations' to Germany, 1919-33: Implications for the Third-World Debt Crisis." https://www.princeton.edu/~ies/IES_Studies/S61.pdf
 
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