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Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was a 1948–52 U.S. program that pumped $13.3 billion into Western Europe to rebuild economies shattered by World War II and to contain communism.
HistoryKorean War
The Korean War (1950-1953) was a brutal Cold War conflict that erupted when communist North Korea invaded South Korea, prompting a U.S.-led United Nations intervention against Soviet-backed North Korean and Chinese forces, ultimately freezing the Korean Peninsula along a heavily militarized border that persists to this day.