Operation Plunder

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In an effort to halt communist expansion and aggression, the Truman Doctrine provided millions in aid to Turkey and Greece after Britain’s war-torn economy could support them no longer. Truman’s doctrine is arguably the starting point of the Cold War.

The Shang Dynasty is responsible for the earliest written records in China and first to use a 365-day calendar. The Kings built palaces, defensive walls, and also functioned as the high priest.

Despite America’s preference for isolationism, FDR backed allied forces with military supplies with the passage of the Lend-Lease Act in 1941, giving Britain the artillery and war machines needed to fight nazi aggression.

Uncle Sam is originally linked to Samuel Wilson, an entrepreneurial meat packer and major supplier of beef to the US Army during the War of 1812. Wilson stamped his meat barrels with “U.S.” for United States, but soldiers began referring to the grub as “Uncle Sam’s.”

1970s America, coined the ‘Me’ decade by Tom Wolfe, saw a reversal in the communal attitudes of the 1960s. The decade was marked by environmental protection, racial equality, Nixon’s resignation, the Fall of Saigon, disco, and more.

Tensions between the British and colonialists had escalated to the Boston Massacre on March 5th, 1770, when redcoats shot five colonialists dead and wounded six more.

The 2004 tsunami on Boxing Day would prove to be the deadliest in recorded history, taking a staggering 230,000 lives after a 9.1 earthquake ripped through an undersea fault in the Indian Ocean.