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George Marshall's Plan

President Truman, George Marshall, Paul Hoffman,
and Averell Harriman discuss Marshall's plan

On June 5, 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and six years after the attack at Pearl Harbor, U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall gave a speech at Harvard University that helped chart the course of the 20th century.

Marshall, who had been U.S. Army chief of staff during the war, proposed that the United States use its economic might to help rebuild the crippled post-war world.

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