The United States wanted to sustain their political stability in key capitals by keeping the decolonization of European empires in order. The main objectives of the Marshall Plan was to form intergovernmental bodies to integrate Western European countries economically and politically, remove trade barriers, tariffs and regulations between the countries, form European payments union and make currencies convertible. They came up with the Marshall plan, which was a massive $12.4 million dollar European recovery program financed by the United States. Many European nations were still struggling from the global depression of the 1930s and their economies were discontent and politically unstable; but America needed European nations to buy American
