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Chapter 28: Cold War America |
1945 Iran crisis and civil war in Greece: early Cold War issues promote containment
1946 George Kennan’s "Long Telegram": explains Soviet threat and defines containment
Stalin and Churchill: "cold war" speeches harden divisions
1946 elections: Republican congressional victories
Baruch plan: international control of atomic energy fails
1947 Truman Doctrine: aids Greece and Turkey
Taft-Hartley Act: restricts labor unions
HUAC: House committee investigates Hollywood
National Security Act: creates Defense Department and CIA
1948 Marshall Plan: adopted to aid Western Europe
Berlin blockade: airlift saves Berlin
Truman upsets Dewey in presidential election
Truman recognizes Israel
1949 Soviet A-bomb test: Truman orders H-bomb research
China: falls to the Communists
NATO established: new U.S. defense commitments
1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy launches his anticommunist campaign
Korean War begins
McCarran Act: antisubversive bill
NSC-68: defines new national security policy
Alger Hiss: former government official convicted
1951 Truman fires MacArthur for insubordination
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower elected president
1953 Korean War ends
1954 Army-McCarthy hearings: McCarthy censured
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