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1944
Servicemen's Readjustment Act
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1944
Bretton Woods Conference
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1945
Spock publishes The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
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1945
Yalta conference
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1945
United States ends lend-lease to USSR
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1945
United Nations established
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1945-1946
Nuremberg war crimes trial in Germany
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1946
Employment Act creates Council of Economic Advisers
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1946
Iran crisis
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1946
Kennan's "Long Telegram" lays out "Containment Doctrine"
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1946-1948
Tokyo war crimes trials
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1947
Truman Doctrine
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1947
Marshall Plan
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1947
Taft-Hartley Act
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1947
The National Security Act establishes the department of defense, the CIA (Central intelligence Agency) and NSC (National security counsel)
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1948
Israel founded;US recognizes it
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1948
"Voice of America" begins radio broadcasts behind iron curtain
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1948
Alger Hiss case begins
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1948
Truman defeats Dewey for presidency
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1948-1949
Berlin Blockade
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1949
NATO established
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1949
Communists defeat nationalists in China
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1949
Soviets explode their first atomic bomb
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1950
American economy begins postwar growth
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1950
McCarthy red-hunt begins
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1950
McCarran Internal Security Bill passed by congress over Truman's veto
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1950-1953
Korean War
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1951
Truman fires MacArthur
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1951
Rosenbergs convicted of treason
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1952
United states explodes first hydrogen bomb
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1954
Army-McCarthy hearings
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1957
Postwar peak of US birthrate
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1973
US birthrate falls below replacement level