Chapter 34 Chronology

Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill)

1944

Bretton Woods economic conference

1944

Spock publishes "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care"

1945

Yalta conference

1945

United States ends lend-lease to USSR

1945

United Nations established

1945

Nuremberg war crimes trial in Germany

1945-1946

Employment Act creates Council of Economic Advisers

1946

Iran crisis

1946

Kennan's "Long Telegram" lays out "containment doctrine"

1946

Tokyo war crimes trials

1946-1948

Truman Doctrine

1947

Marshall Plan

1947

Taft-Hartley Act

1947

National Security Act creates
- Department of Defense
- National Security Council (NSC)
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

1947

Isarel founded and United States recognizes it

1948

"Voice of America" begins radio broadcasts behind iron curtain

1948

Alger Hiss case begins

1948

Truman defeats Dewey for presidency

1948

Berlin blockade

1948-1949

NATO established

1949

Communists defeat Nationalists in China

1949

Soviets explode their first atomic bomb

1949

American economy begins postwar growth

1950

McCarthy red hunt begins

1950

McCarthy Internal Security Bill passed by Congress over Truman's veto

1950

Korean War

1950-1953

Truman fires MacArthur

1951

Rosenbergs convicted of treason

1951

United States explodes first hydrogen bomb

1952

Army-McCarthy Hearings

1954

Postwar peak of U.S. birthrate

1957

U.S. birthrate falls below replacement level

1973