The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan played a big part in The Cold War because it helped prevent Japan and Germany become communist. The Marshall Plan was when The United States gave Germany and Japan a Blank Check, and told them that they could have as much money that they wanted. However, there was one thing that both countries had to do: they both had to become Democratic. Japan and Germany obviously agreed to this, because they were destroyed by World War 2. This plan pleased The United States, but Russia was mad about this because they wanted Germany to become a communist country. Overall, Germany and Japan got themselves up and running again. Japan used the money they had to create better technology, which put them back on the map economically. Germany used the money to build up the fallen government and to repair the social damages done.