Studied by 2 people
1944
Servicemen's Readjustment Act
1944
Bretton Woods 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
The National Security Act establishes the department of defense, the CIA (Central intelligence Agency) and NSC (National security counsel)
1948
Israel founded;US 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 US birthrate
1973
US birthrate falls below replacement level
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