Dates - American History Quiz 4/17

1945-1989

Cold War

1945-1970s

Civil Rights Movement

3/5/1946

Winston Churchill tells Truman about the Iron Curtain.

3/12/1947

Truman puts his containment policy into place.

6/23/1948 - 6/24/1948

Berlin Blockade

5/12/1949

Russia drops blockade

2/12/1946

Truman learns about the african american veterans being beat up.

1946

Truman’s committee for civil rights

4/15/1947

Desegregation of baseball / Jackie Robinson

7/12/1948 - 7/15/1948

Democratic National Convention where Truman takes Civil Rights from plank to platform.

7/26/1948

Truman passes order #9981, desegregating the military

E1948 - Democrat E.C votes

Harry Truman - 303 E.C

E1948 - Republican E.C votes

Thomas Dewey - 189 E.C

E1948 - Dixiecrat E.C votes

Strom Thurmond - 39 E.C

1949

China turns communist and Russia gains bombs.

6/25/1950

The U.S go to Korea to push the North Koreans out of South Korea

9//15/1950

Inchon Land Invasion

November 1950

U.S and S.K had pushed N.K into the Chinese Border

4/11/1951

Truman fired Macarthur

E1952 - Democrat E.C

Dwight Eisenhower - 442 E.C

E1952 - Republican E.C

Adlai Stevenson - 89 E.C

1953

Armistice / Cease Fire Korean War