Greece's sordid 1946-9 civil war, which left every Greek family I know indelibly marked
The Bretton Woods system, already set out in 1944, posited the dollar as the sole linchpin holding together the edifice of global trade and finance.
It was not for humanitarian motives that Washington decided to spare Germany a return to a bucolic past.
France's government army was entering the French capital to commence a pitiless battle against the revolutionaries of the Paris Commune
his Speech of Hope--a significant restatement of America's policy on Germany. Until then the Allies had been united in their commitment to convert 'Germany into a country primarily agricultural and pastoral in character'.
incidentally, isn't it inherently fucked up that the Allies thought they had the right to do that
