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The Marshall Plan,
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as you know from other courses,
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brought American aid in great quantities to Western Europe,
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and one of the reasons was to keep Western Europe out of soviet influence.
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And this drew predictable attacks from the Parti Communiste,
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from the Communist Party, because of the obvious ideological
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division that was the Cold War.
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So, and it also was the time when the Rosenbergs,
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in this country, were executed
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for allegedly passing
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nuclear secrets to Soviet agents; and these kinds of executions,
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as had been the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti,