8th grade by James Conway

marshall plan 1947

jamesc79 — 2025-01-29 17:55:49 UTC

On April 3, 1948, President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan, named for Secretary of State George Marshall, who in 1947 proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe.

Yalta conference 1945

jamesc79 — 2025-01-29 17:55:54 UTC

The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe, especially focusing on German reparations and post-war occupation as well as Poland.

La Violencia, Columbia 1948

jamesc79 — 2025-01-29 17:57:00 UTC

Colombia's violence started in 1948 as an ugly political war between the country's Liberals and Conservatives—triggered by the assassination of Liberal Party Leader Jorge Eliecer Gaitan.

Israel established 1948

jamesc79 — 2025-01-29 17:58:06 UTC

On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel

NATO formed 1949

jamesc79 — 2025-01-29 17:59:20 UTC

he North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.

People’s Republic of China formed 1949

jamesc79 — 2025-01-29 18:00:32 UTC

On 1 October 1949 CCP chairman Mao Zedong proclaimed the People's Republic of China (PRC) from atop Tiananmen, after a near complete victory (1949) by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the Chinese Civil War.

Korean War 1950-1953

jamesc79 — 2025-01-29 18:02:02 UTC

fter five years of simmering tensions on the Korean peninsula, the Korean War began on June 25, 1950, when the Northern Korean People's Army invaded South Korea in a coordinated general attack at several strategic points along the 38th parallel, the line dividing communist North Korea from the non-communist Republic

Armas stages coup to control Guatemala, 1954

jamesc79 — 2025-01-29 18:04:26 UTC

The CIA armed, funded, and trained a force of 480 men led by Carlos Castillo Armas. After U.S. efforts to criticize and isolate Guatemala internationally, Armas' force invaded Guatemala on 18 June 1954, backed by a heavy campaign of psychological warfare, as well as air bombings of Guatemala City and a naval blockade.

Warsaw Pact, 1955

jamesc79 — 2025-01-29 18:05:41 UTC

The Warsaw Pact was a collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania (Albania withdrew in 1968).

Soviet Union invaded Hungary, 1956

jamesc79 — 2025-01-29 18:06:20 UTC

In October, 1956, the Soviet Union ordered its troops to crush a nascent rebellion in Budapest, the capital of the Soviet satellite state of Hungary. Undertaken while the West was preoccupied by developments in the Middle East, the conflict demonstrated emerging political dissent in the Eastern Bloc.

Cuban Revolution, 1959

jamesc79 — 2025-01-29 18:07:05 UTC

The Cuban Revolution (Spanish: Revolución cubana) was the military and political overthrow of Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship, which had reigned as the government of Cuba between 1952 and 1959