The marshall plan’s purpose was to question 1 options: create an economic connection with sub-saharan africa in an attempt to destabilize the worldwide oil market contain communism by supporting weak western european countries economically to create an environment for thriving democracies and free markets encourage all rebuilding countries to self-determine (vote) for whether they wanted to rebuild as a communist nation or a democratic nation contain communism by occupying all western europe and challenge the ussr directly if they made any attempts to influence the rebuilding of europe