Fulbright Act of 1946
Fulbright Act of 1946, 50a U.S.C. § 1619, is a United States statute commissioning the United States Department of State as a disposal agency for the disposal of materials on public lands and the reclamation of salvageable military surplus assets pending the aftermath of World War II. The Act of Congress was an amendment to the Surplus Property Act of 1944 implementing section 1619 entitled designation of disposal agencies.
The statute chronicled in volume sixty of the United States Statutes at Large authorizing the disposal of surplus property abroad coincided with an American initiative known as the Marshall Plan periodically referred to as the Foreign Assistance Act of 1948 and Economic Cooperation Act of 1948.
The Fulbright Act was enacted into law by the 33rd President of the United States Harry Truman during the mid-twentieth century. The foreign educational exchange initiative encompassed the framework of World War II and the origins of the Cold War.
The academic cross-cultural exchange programs persevered the Cold War enduring five decades ―
The Autumn of Nations occurring in 1989 were political demonstrations exemplifying a solidarity movement of nation state while embracing the enlightenment of Glasnost. The civil resistance was revealing by the expiring summer of 1989 with the Pan-European Picnic, divulgement of the Iron Curtain, and the commencement of fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989.