Atlanticism
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Atlanticism, also known as North Atlanticism or Transatlanticism, is the ideology that advocates a close alliance between nations in Northern America and in Europe on political, economic, and defense
US government poster promoting the Marshall Plan (1950)
Paul D. Cravath, early Atlanticist leader
Ronald Reagan speaking in Berlin, 1987 ("Tear down this wall!") with Helmut Kohl, the then Chancellor of Germany. Reagan was a committed Atlanticist.
US President Ronald Reagan (left) and UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (right) in 1982
Marshall Plan
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The Marshall Plan was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred $13.3 billion to 17 European countries in economic recovery program
Atlanticism
…the Cold War, through the establishment of various Euro-Atlantic institutions, most importantly the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Marshall Plan, with the purpose being to maintain or increase the security and prosperity of the participating countries during the Cold War and protect liberal…
General George C. Marshall, the 50th U.S. Secretary of State
The hunger-winter of 1947. Thousands protest in West Germany against the disastrous food situation (March 31, 1947). The sign says: We want coal, we want bread
First page of the Marshall Plan
US aid to Greece under the Marshall Plan