History of the United States II / Unit 13 USH2 1814 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Soviet Answer
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The idea
When Czechoslovakia and Poland signalled that they wanted to join the Marshall Plan, the Soviet Union refused to let them, Digital History records.
In practice
The Molotov Plan, in the Yawp's words a symbolic pledge of aid to Eastern Europe.
Where people slip
Digital History adds that the Soviet refusal made it easier to win congressional passage of the Marshall Plan.
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