Logo of the Marshall Plan

US-Regierung: Logo used on aid delivered to European countries during the Marshall Plan, 1948–1953; Bildquelle: Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US-MarshallPlanAid-Logo.svg?uselang=de.

After the Second World War, the Marshall Plan, named after the US Secretary of State George C. Marshall (1880–1959), supported the gradual rebuilding of the European economy and thus helped to reintegrate the German Federal Republic and other countries into the international trade network.

US government: Logo used on aid delivered to European countries during the Marshall Plan, 1948–1953; source: Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US-MarshallPlanAid-Logo.svg?uselang=de, Creative Commons Some Rights Reserved Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Germany.