By raising the standard of living in these nations, citizens looked no where else to alleviate their economic hardship (Hogan). After the fall of Czechoslovakia to communism in 1948, no other European nation fell to (Constitutional) communism. There is propaganda from this period, such as that found in the appendix, which suggests that the Marshall Plan was successful in preventing communism from spreading to the economies of Western Europe (Clare). One German politician praised the Marshall by saying, “The Marshall Plan contributed directly to Europe's economic recovery, the restoration of morale, and the containment of communism” (Wallace). Word Count: 558Section C: Evaluating SourcesMachado, Barry. In Search of a Usable Past: The Marshall Plan and Postwar Reconstruction Today. Published in 2007 by Barry Machado, the book In Search of a Usable Past: The Marshall and Postwar Reconstruction Today documents a study designed to “establish the relevance to contemporary postwar reconstruction programs of an experimental foreign policy model conceived and executed between the end of the 1940s and early 1950s." Machado professionally documents that study and analyzes the study to consider that a policy like the Marshall Plan could be successful in modern politics. Machado received his doctorate in education from Northwestern in 1957 indicating the accuracy of this work was initiated the Marshall Plan, so the facts used in this work are accurate. This book is of great value to this investigation as it contains information relating to each part of the investigation plan. The book considers what the purpose of the Marshall Plan was. and contains a chapter specifically designed to analyze the success of the... paper center... of Western Europe. Based on the evidence presented in this investigation, the Marshall Plan successfully achieved this goal The second goal of the Marshall Plan was to prevent the spread of communism in Western European countries. Despite the fact that no country fell to communism following the implementation of the Marshall Plan, this investigation does not contain sufficient evidence to argue that the plan is responsible. preventing the spread of communism in Western European countries. Both goals of the Marshall Plan were achieved, but it is unclear to what extent the Marshall Plan achieved its second goal, which was to prevent the spread of communism, due to a lack of evidence to suggest that the Marshall Plan was responsible for prevention. Overall, the Marshall Plan was a huge success for the United States. Word count: 148