Explain why the USA gave financial aid to European countries after 1945​

According to https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/george-marshall-calls-for-aid-to-europe

" First, the economic chaos of Western Europe was providing a prime breeding ground for the growth of communism. Second, the U.S. economy, which was quickly returning to a civilian state after several years of war, needed the markets of Western Europe in order to sustain itself."

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America gave financial support to Europe through the Marshall Plan specifically to help them recover from WWII. Much of Germany was destroyed by the Allies. America who was largely untouched by the war was in position to help rebuild

the completion of the erie canal spurred the first great westward movement of american settlers, gave access to the rich land and resources west of the appalachians and made new york the preeminent commercial city in the united states.

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