The first two nations to receive aid from the marshall plan were
italy and greece
greece and turkey
turkey and france
france and italy

The first two countries to receive aid under the Marshall Plan were Greece and Turkey. With preventing the spread of communism being one of the plan's goals, and with Turkey and Greece both representing what was seen as the most prevalent geographical threat for it, it was deemed necessary to fund them first.

The second , larger puritan colony of massachusetts bay was conceived as a "city upon a hill". but it also struggled with internal turmoil like the salem witch trials and external conflicts like king philip's (metacom's) war.