The Phoenix Program was a private-public stimulus program initiated in 1958 by Charles Morgan's transitional government in England following the resolution of the Anarchy. Lasting ten years, the Phoenix Program was designed to rebuild English infrastructure and its damaged cities and thereby provide jobs to over two million unemployed. The Phoenix Program is part of an era known as the English Reconstruction, and was modelled largely after the similar French strategy in the wake of their own internal conflict. Along with the direct funding by the English government, which was strapped for cash, the Phoenix Program relied on investment by American, Irish, Portuguese and Oceanian companies, and by 1960 there were almost twenty foreign countries, including France, providing both public and pr