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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 Minh said he chose a ideology different to their colonial rulers, didn't he, so would he be communist seeing that the nation they broke away from is communist? Would be chose a different ideology from capitalism and communism, what would this be? Would he resort to fascism? Perhaps whatever ideology he chooses might become popular for European colonies. How would the cold war play out as a result of all this? What would today look like? What you think?
 

Toraach

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I don't think that the US would allow a communist takeover. I hope that they weren't that stupid to allow commies gaing foothold in Western Europe.

For the Marshall Plan, well, I read somewhere that its impact is overestimated. It started in 1948 when the worst in France had been already over.

In the book "Paris After the Liberation, 1944–1949" , is written that particulary bad situation was during the winter 1946/47. But that winter also hit other countries, like Great Britain.
 
Most important question is why USA wouldn't achieve Marshall Plan.

Indeed.

Through its history the US or North American economy has been heavily dependent on exports. Post 1945 there was clearly going to be a extended period of a poor export market for the US were Europes economy not revived. The Marshal Plan was part of a package of economic measures for accelerating reviving the global economy. The Bretton Woods Agreement was another key component of the package.
 
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