Operations Plunder and Varsity

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After WWII decimated Europe’s infrastructure and supply chain, US Secretary of State George Marshall proposed his Marshall Plan to distribute $15 billion in aid to 16 European nations, signed by President Truman in April of 1948.

Marco Polo’s father returned to Venice from travels in Asia when Marco was 15, and would return with Marco, beginning a 17 year journey through the Asian continent. When the Polos returned to Venice, Marco was arrested and his cellmate wrote his successful biography.

1960s America was marked by the literal moonshot goal of putting a man on the moon to overshadow Cold War and Vietnam War anxieties. The 60s also saw movements in civil rights, love, drugs, and music, before turning violent near the end of the decade.

Pocahontas was born in Virginia around 1596 and was given her name which translates to “playful one” or “ill-behaved child.” Although legend has it that Pocahontas was in love with John Smith, it was John Rolfe with whom she actually married and bore a child.

In response to the segregationist black codes enacted in the South after the Civil War, the 14th Amendment expanded the civil and legal rights of all Americans, repealed the three-fifths clause and banned payments to former slaveholders for loss of human property and more.

Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor took months of planning and practice before 8:00 AM on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, when Japanese warplanes filled the sky over Honolulu, Hawaii, wreaking havoc on the American’s idle and unsuspecting Pacific Fleet.

Machu Picchu is a citadel perched 7,874 feet above sea level in the Peruvian Andes mountains. Although its purpose is debated by historians to this day, it is speculated that its role aided the Incas in astronomy and agriculture.