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The two ways in which the Marshall Plan and the Molotov Plan helped shape Europe after World War II were the following.
The Marshall Plan benefited European countries were the following: It rebuilt and strengthened their economies and it increased trade in Western Europe. The Molotov Plan, created in 1947, was the plan created by the Soviet Union to help rebuild the nations of Eastern Europe and to establish Communism as the ideology of the Eastern countries, that served as buffer countries in the case western European nations tried to invade teh USSR. We are talking about Hungary, Eastern Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Poland.
US Secretary of State, George C. Marshall, was the driving force behind the Marshall Plan that represented the recovery program to help the western European nations after the destruction of World War II. President Harry S. Truman knew that the Soviet Union could spread Communism in some other countries and he wanted to impede the USSR to mess in the reconstruction of countries such as Germany and France. The Marshal Plan was enacted in 1948 and was destined for approximately 15 billion.
