WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. It was enacted in 1948 and provided more than $15 billion to help finance rebuilding efforts on the continent. The brainchild of U.S. Secretary of State George C.

Detailed explanation-2: -At the end of the war, millions of people were dead and millions more homeless, the European economy had collapsed, and much of the European industrial infrastructure had been destroyed. The Soviet Union, too, had been heavily affected.

Detailed explanation-3: -Following the end of World War Two, the communists were in control of the northern part of Korea while the United States was in control of the southern half. In 1948 both sides formed governments in their respective sections but tensions remained and boiled over when the communist north invaded the south in June 1950.

Detailed explanation-4: -That a Europe more prosperous than ever would emerge from this apocalypse astonished the world. Most economies shattered by war returned to pre-war levels of output within five years.