Respuesta :
Answer:
Western European economies grew faster than those of Eastern Europe because of the Marshall Plan. The Marshall Plan was an economic reconstruction program that pumped billions of dollars of American investment into the Western European economies. The founding of European Economic Community, a forerunner of the EU, expedited the growth process. Meanwhile, eastern European countries had begun to embrace communism and were soon under the control of state run economies, which limited access to profitable international markets, and were under the de facto rule of the Soviet Union under a series of communist dictators.
Explanation:
