What was the marshall plan?

a) a program of financial assistance from the united states to european countries to postwar recovery

b) a plan drawn up by the british to corner and defeat german forces by entering into an alliance with the united states

c) a strategy developed by the united states and its allies to encircle hitler's armies in europe

d) a plan drawn up by the british government to aid the wartime economy and enlist soldiers

The first alternative is correct (A).

Marshall Plan, or European Recovery Plan, was a program of US economic aid to Western European countries after World War II. The objective of the plan was to rebuild economically the Western European countries that were destroyed or that suffered losses with the occurrence of the war.

The Marshall Plan was named in honor of its founder George Catlett Marshall, a US Army general, and made a contribution of $ 18 billion to Europeans used to rebuild buildings and industries, import food and industrialized goods, and as in the financing of agriculture.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

the answer is a)   a sentence of death costs the state "almost three times as much as a sentence of life in prison" (delon 147)