How was the united states’ policy of containment related to the marshall plan?

if the united states could contain the ussr and stop it from trading with other nations, the marshall plan would be successful.

by containing the economic growth of the ussr, the united states could use the marshall plan to stop the spread of capitalism.

the ussr could only be contained by military force, so the marshall plan built up the military of the united states.

the united states believed that the economic aid provided by the marshall plan would contain the spread of communism.

The United States believed that the economic aid provided by the Marshall Plan would help contain the spread of Communism.

Explanation:

After World War II, Europe was devastated by the long period of conflict. The war lasted six years, enough to drive many countries into chaos, harming the economies of the countries involved.

In that context, the two major powers emerging as winners of the conflict were US and USSR. However, these powers would dispute the hegemony of the global economic system. The USSR sought to implement the model of socialist economic production while the US sought to strengthen capitalism.

The US saw socialism as a threat to the world. To contain the advance of socialism, one of the strategies was precisely to promote economic aid to the destroyed nations, in order to maintain them as allied nations and to induce the continuity of capitalism.

In this context of economic reconstruction, the Marshall Plan was launched in 1947, an ambitious project of US loans and financial donations to the European allies devastated by the Second World War. The Marshall Plan was a success and the countries of Europe quickly recovered.