APUSH Ch. 34 Quiz Study Guide (copy)

1944

Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill)

1944

Bretton Woods economic conference

1945

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

1945-1946

Nuremberg war crimes trial in Germany

1946

Employment Act creates Council of Economic Advisers

1946

Iran crisis

1946

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

1946-1948

Tokyo war crimes trials

1947

Truman Doctrine

1947

Marshall Plan

1947

Taft-Hartley Act

1947

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

1948

Israel founded; 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

1948-1949

Berlin blockade

1949

NATO established

1949

Communists defeat Nationalists in China

1949

Soviets explode their first atomic bomb

1950

American economy begins postwar growth

1950

McCarthy red hunt begins

1950

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

1950-1953

Korean War

1951

Truman fires MacArthur

1951

Rosenbergs convicted of treason

1952

United States explodes first hydrogen bomb

1954

Army-McCarthy Hearings

1957

Postwar peak of U.S. birthrate

1973

U.S. birthrate falls below replacement level