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Redirected from USAID The United States Agency for International Development (or USAID) is the US government unit responsible for most non-military foreign aid[?]. USAID predecessors included the Marshall Plan reconstruction of Europe after World War Two and the Truman Administration's Point Four Program[?]. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed the Foreign Assistance Act[?] into law and by executive order established USAID.

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• 1945 - Bretton Woods Agreement PL 79-171
• 1950 - Economic Cooperation Act[?] PL 81-535
• 1957 - Mutual Security Act PL 85-141
• 1959 - Inter-American Development Bank Act[?] PL 86-147
• 1961 - Inter-American Social and Economic Cooperation Program[?] PL 87-41  
• 1961 - Foreign Assistance Act[?] PL 87-195
• 1973 - Foreign Assistance Act[?] PL 93-189

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• http://www.usaid.gov

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