WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO SEPTEMBER 1948
Find out what all happened April to September 1948

President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries. (3. April 1948)

The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss. (25. August 1948)

A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead. (7. April 1948)

Cold War: Berlin Airlift — Military forces, under direction of the Soviet-controlled government in East Germany, set-up a land blockade of West Berlin. (1. April 1948)

Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect. (9. May 1948)

Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons. (4. September 1948)

Communist Madiun uprising in Dutch Indies. (18. September 1948)

Creation of the United Nations peacekeeping force the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization. (29. May 1948)

Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, makes its television debut. (20. June 1948)

1948 Arab-Israeli War: the Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14. (13. May 1948)

The Hadassah medical convoy massacre: In an ambush, 79 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital and a British soldier are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarra near Jerusalem. (13. April 1948)

Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot and wounded near the Italian Parliament. (14. July 1948)

Edvard Beneš resigned as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state. (7. June 1948)

The Western allies begin an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union blockades West Berlin. (26. June 1948)

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) is established, with Kim Il-sung as leader. (1. May 1948)

Burma joins the United Nations. (19. April 1948)

Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO. (9. June 1948)

Arab–Israeli War: Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later. (24. May 1948)

The Berlin airlift begins. (25. June 1948)

Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan. (1. July 1948)