The Marshall Plan
The "Marshall Plan" was named after the man who then was US Secretary of State, George C. Marshall. Officially the plan was called the European Recovery Program. Marshall announced the plan in 1947, and it went into effect in 1948. The intent was to provide aid and rebuilding to European economies after the damaging effects of World War II. The US intended to build up its allies in Europe and stave off communism.
The die is cast means an event has happened or a decision has been taken that cannot be changed. It is also a variation of a Latin phrase attributed by Suetonius to Julius Caesar on January 10, 49 BC, as he led his army across the Rubicon river in Northern Italy.
Today, the phrase crossing the Rubicon is an idiom that means to pass a point of no return.
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The percentage of women in the workforce steadily increased until about half of women worked at least part-time.
Many women returned to the home as housewives, although some worked part-time.
Women were encouraged to work in factories and offices to take the place of men at war.
The Equal Pay Act (EPA) mandated that men and women in the same job must be paid equally.
They helped spread literacy, civic discourse, and even political dissent in colonial american
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At present, NATO has 30 members. In 1949, there were 12 founding members of the Alliance: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States. The other member countries are: Greece and Turkey (1952), Germany (1955), Spain (1982), the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland (1999), Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia (2004), Albania and Croatia (2009), Montenegro (2017) and North Macedonia (2020).
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