Was the Marshall Plan, America’s plan for European recovery, necessary to keep Europe peaceful, or was it all a calculated move as part of America’s new front on containing Communism?

Here is the prompt: Was the Marshall Plan, America’s plan for European recovery, necessary to keep Europe peaceful, or was it all a calculated move as part of America’s new front on containing Communism? Also included pictures of my textbook, refer to these pages and this is one of the sources.(Pelz, William A. A People’s History of Modern EuropePreview the document. London: Pluto Press, 2016.) All sources will be provided. source 1: https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1946-1963-elder-statesman/the-sinews-of-peace/ source 2: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/trudoc.asp source 3: https://www.marshallfoundation.org/marshall/the-marshall-plan/marshall-plan-speech/