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Immediately after WW II, late 40s, it was not sure which side would win the ideology race. The U.S. needed a show case of capitalism to the Communists' sympathizers. The chose Germany (showcase to USSR) and Japan (showcase to China) One in the West. The Morgenthau plan lost. The Marshall Plan won One in the East. By late 1947 and early 1948, the emergence of an economic crisis in Japan alongside concerns about the spread of communism sparked a reconsideration of occupation policies. This period is sometimes called the “reverse course.” In this stage of the occupation, which lasted until 1950, the economic rehabilitation of Japan took center stage. All the above created competition to the United States economy. As a result of building brand new factories and had destroyed the collusions (the US occupation forces hang the old guard) that hampers progress. Twenty years later, Germany and Japan had modern industries. The US had old factories. Had the US destroyed its competitors economically, post WWII, the communists would have a few million allies on the rural impoverished countries that lost the war. by reconstruction and displaying them as a bull wark of the capitalist system, it was millions communists who would look in awe to the progress of the capitalist system. As always the Law of the Unintended consequences hit. The backward progress and end up providing competition to those that help them grow out of poverty.