AUHIS 251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Operation Paperclip, Marshall Plan, Space Race
30 Sep 2018
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Fear in moscow and washington about the other sides militarizing space and atomic weapons in space. Created at the end of the war. Guest speaker at harvard convocation in 1947. Delivers a message that spells out a program to help every single country that was damaged in wwii. Pitched to moscow, london, etc - almost everywhere in europe that was wrecked. Infrastructure in europe was destroyed, people were freezing to death, people were starving to death. American assistance to rebuild europe, create jobs, infrastructure, economy, etc. Eastern europe was invited to help, but stalin declined for the whole east (everywhere that was occupied by soviets) Plan was for west germany and the western europe. First african american to play in major leagues. On the verge of being created by the un. Zionist movement jewish people decided to return to the holy land (jerusalem) Israel was created in may 1948 and was immediately attacked by arab neighbours.
