In a program that won broad support, America committed to providing $400 million in assistance to Greece and Turkey.
HistoryPod Extra: Centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918
6th February 2018
‘The eventual development of this new force by other nations was to be expected. This probability has always been taken into account by us’.
President Harry S. Truman issued Executive Order 9981 that abolished racial segregation in the U.S. military.
US President Harry S. Truman ordered air and naval forces to assist South Korea against an invasion by North Korea.
On the 5th March 1946, Winston Churchill described the post-war division of Europe as an “iron curtain” in his “Sinews of Peace” address at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.
On the 24th September 1946, Clark Clifford and George Elsey presented a report to President Truman in which they recommended “restraining and confining” Soviet influence
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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