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marshall plan
Cold War

Marshall Plan

The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. The United

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Vietnam War

Viet Cong

Table of Contents The Viet Cong, also known as the Viet Nam Cong San or English Vietnamese Communists, were a guerrilla group that, with the

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World War 1

Battle of Passchendaele

The Third Battle of Ypres (German: Dritte Flandernschlacht; French: Troisième Bataille des Flandres; Dutch: Derde Slag om Ieper), also known as the Battle of Passchendaele

no taxation without representation
American Revolution

No Taxation Without Representation

“No taxation without representation” is a political slogan that originated in the American Revolution, and which expressed one of the primary grievances of the American

townshend acts
American Revolution

Townshend Acts

The Townshend Acts met stiff resistance in the colonies, and public opposition to them was widely debated in colonial newspapers. Opponents of the Acts gradually

buddhist crisis
Vietnam War

Buddhist Crisis

In South Vietnam, a country where the Buddhist majority was estimated to comprise between 70 and 90 percent of the population in 1963,[2][3][4][5][6] President Ngô

western bloc
Cold War

Western Bloc

The Western Bloc, also known as the Free Bloc, the Capitalist Bloc, the American Bloc, and the NATO Bloc, was a coalition of countries that