"Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist." — George C. Marshall, Harvard Address, June 5, 1947
Which Soviet response most directly resulted from the Marshall Plan announcement?
- Acheck_circle
The creation of Cominform and later COMECON to coordinate Eastern Bloc economies
- B
The signing of the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
- C
The Soviet withdrawal from the United Nations Security Council
- D
The 1956 invasion of Hungary
Explanation
Stalin established the Communist Information Bureau (Cominform) in September 1947 and later the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) in 1949 to coordinate satellite economies and counter Western influence enabled by Marshall aid.