Question

post - world war ii events
world war ii devastates europes infrastructure and economies.
u.s. response?
effects on western europe

• improved political stability
• closer ties with the united states
• recovering economies

which sentence best completes this diagram?

• the president authorizes a military strike against forces threatening the borders of western europe
• congress appropriates funding for nuclear arms facilities in western europe
• the president signs a treaty requiring reparations to be paid to western european countries
• congress passes a bill to provide financial assistance to western european countries

Explanation:

The diagram shows post - WWII Europe devastated, and the effects on Western Europe are economic recovery, closer US ties, etc. The Marshall Plan (US financial aid to Western Europe) matches this. The first option is military, not for economic recovery. The second is nuclear arms, not related. The third: reparations were from Axis, not to Western Europe. The fourth is Congress passing a bill for financial aid (Marshall Plan - style), which leads to the effects.

Answer:

D. Congress passes a bill to provide financial assistance to Western European countries