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The changed Japan!
After the second world war Japan was taken over by America. American soldiers were constantly present in the cities and towns. All of the large cities were damaged and the Japanese suffered from a lack of food for several years. Most of the small islands surrounding Japan were taken by America. Japan's army was destroyed, many of the General's committed suicide after Japan surrounded and those who didn't were put on trial for war crimes.
The Marshell Plan
Was anti-communist in that it sought to rebuild the economies of western European countries to resist communism as well as made to help the American economy since other nations had to spend their grants in the United States for purchases of goods and services. The Soviet Union and its eastern European satellites refused to participate, but the Marshall Plan gave $13.5 billion in economic assistance to seventeen countries: Great Britain, France, Italy, and western Germany etc, and resulted in a 25 percent increase in western European GNP
