"I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want." — President Harry S. Truman, Address to Congress, March 12, 1947
Which later policy most directly extended the logic Truman articulates in the final sentence about "misery and want"?
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The Marshall Plan, which provided economic aid to rebuild Western Europe
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The Neutrality Acts, which restricted American involvement abroad
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The Dawes Plan, which restructured German reparations in the 1920s
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The Smoot-Hawley Tariff, which raised duties on imports
Explanation
Truman's claim that totalitarianism grows from poverty became the rationale for the Marshall Plan (1948), which sent over $13 billion in economic aid to Europe. The other options either predate the Cold War or contradict its interventionist logic.