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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
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