
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War
Benn Steil wrote this timely piece about the magnanimous, yet strategically astute, European Recovery Program, known popularly as the Marshall Plan. Not wanting to associate himself fully with the program, Truman coined the term after his senatorial Secretary of State, retired General of the Army, George C. Marshall. Truman made the fateful decision to aid anti-communist forces in Greece and Turkey as those two nations were plunged into vicious civil wars in the chaotic month