Reply #12: (Good grief!) The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to ... [View All]

[TahitiNut]

... prevent a third phase of the World War. WW2 was merely WW Part 2 becuase of the heinous and inhumane manner in which Germany was treated after WW1. The Treaty of Versailles required complete capitulation, major losses of territory, an "army" of no more than 100,000 men, loss of the private citizens' right to bear arms, massive reparations (269 billion gold marks), and hardships that guaranteed we'd see WW2.

I'm a bit stunned that anyone on a "Democratic" political forum wouldn't be well-versed in the driving principles of the Marshall Plan and why it worked.

Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles for starters.