Chapter 27 - The Cold War

Taft Hartley Act

The did not destroy the labor movement, as many union leaders had predicted.

Stalin

wanted to impose heavy reparations on Germany and to ensure a permanent dismemberment of the nation.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

On April 4, 1949, twelve nations signed an agreement establishing the (NATO) and declaring that an armed attack against one member would be considered an attack against all.

Reconversion

was particularly difficult for the millions of women and minorities who had entered the workforce during the war.

1946

In the summer of , President Truman vetoed an extension of the authority of the wartime Office of Price Administration, thus eliminating price controls.

private homes

Fallout shelters sprang up in public buildings and , stocked with water and canned goods.

John Foster Dulles

, who would become secretary of state in the Eisenhower administration, wrote the foreign policy plank of the Republican platform in 1952 27.2: American Society and Politics After the War The Problems of Reconversion.

Yalta

The accords, in other words, were less a settlement of postwar issues than a set of loose principles that sidestepped the most difficult questions.

Berlin

The crisis in accelerated the consolidation of what was already in effect an alliance among the United States and the countries of Western Europe.

Roosevelt

In February 1945, joined Churchill and Stalin for a peace conference in the Soviet city of Yalta- a resort on the Black Sea that was once a summer palace for the tsars.

National Security Act of 1947

The reshaped the nations major military and diplomatic institutions.