The Marshall Plan was a U.S.-sponsored program of economic recovery for Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. The plan provided more than $13 billion in economic assistance to 16 Western European countries. The Marshall Plan helped to rebuild Europe's economies and infrastructure, and it also helped to contain the spread of communism in Europe.
On April 20, 1941, the Germans had already arrived in Larissa, having won the battles at Kliidi and Kleisoura. At the same time, the Greek troops were retreating from Northern Epirus, having largely disbanded themselves. The shock of the disbandment had hit most Greek divisions, first of all the
The only vivente rege election and the seventeenth-century partition treaty. The beginning of the French Empire and the only independent Nobel prize for a Polish woman. And also the only declaration of war by Poland in the 20th century and the execution of Beria. What do these events have in common?
Fulvia , wife of Marco Antonio, was a woman who rebelled against the role attributed to her by Roman society - that of a mere troupe - and who played an important role in the decisions of her own husband - as in her two previous marriages - and, therefore, of the second triumvirate that ruled Rome (
Sometimes we tend to idealize everything that comes from the East. Without going any further, in Western eyes the figure of the samurai is usually surrounded by a halo of mysticism that has little to do with reality. We think they were honorable, spiritual warriors with high moral principles, but wh