The Marshall Plan is considered the most successful foreign aid
program in American history. It played a crucial role in helping to
rebuild Western Europe after World War II, reintegrate West Germany
into the West, maintain American interest in Europei1/2s future,
contain communism, and launch American consumer democracy and
improving the standard of living in Europe. It also finalized the
progressing division of Europe into a democratic/capitalist West
and communist East.
This volume focuses on "selling the Marshall Plan" both to
sceptical Americans and Europeans in the late 1940s and early
1950s. The Economic Cooperation Administration in Paris
administered the distribution of American Marshall Aid. It also
directed the propaganda effort: 250 films were produced (newsreels,
documentaries, and feature films). Travelling train exhibits were
organized that were shown all over Europe and by ship on Greek
islands; and busses travelled to the remotest Austrian Alpine
valleys to show films about how Marshall Plan aid increased
Austrian economic productivity.
General
Imprint: |
Studienverlag GesmbH
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Country of origin: |
Austria |
Series: |
Studien Verlag |
Release date: |
December 2009 |
First published: |
2009 |
Editors: |
Gunter Bischof
• Dieter Stiefel
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
|
Pages: |
256 |
ISBN-13: |
978-3-7065-4826-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Politics & government >
General
|
LSN: |
3-7065-4826-7 |
Barcode: |
9783706548267 |
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