Chapter 34 Chronology
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Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill)
1944
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Bretton Woods economic conference
1944
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Spock publishes "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care"
1945
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Yalta conference
1945
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United States ends lend-lease to USSR
1945
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United Nations established
1945
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Nuremberg war crimes trial in Germany
1945-1946
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Employment Act creates Council of Economic Advisers
1946
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Iran crisis
1946
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Kennan's "Long Telegram" lays out "containment doctrine"
1946
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Tokyo war crimes trials
1946-1948
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Truman Doctrine
1947
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Marshall Plan
1947
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Taft-Hartley Act
1947
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National Security Act creates
- Department of Defense
- National Security Council (NSC)
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
- Department of Defense
- National Security Council (NSC)
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
1947
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Isarel founded and United States recognizes it
1948
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"Voice of America" begins radio broadcasts behind iron curtain
1948
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Alger Hiss case begins
1948
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Truman defeats Dewey for presidency
1948
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Berlin blockade
1948-1949
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NATO established
1949
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Communists defeat Nationalists in China
1949
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Soviets explode their first atomic bomb
1949
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American economy begins postwar growth
1950
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McCarthy red hunt begins
1950
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McCarthy Internal Security Bill passed by Congress over Truman's veto
1950
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Korean War
1950-1953
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Truman fires MacArthur
1951
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Rosenbergs convicted of treason
1951
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United States explodes first hydrogen bomb
1952
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Army-McCarthy Hearings
1954
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Postwar peak of U.S. birthrate
1957
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U.S. birthrate falls below replacement level
1973
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