chapter 34 chrono

Servicemen's Readjustment Act

Bretton Woods Conference

Spock publishes The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care

Yalta conference

United States ends lend-lease to USSR

United Nations established

Nuremberg war crimes trial in Germany

Employment Act creates Council of Economic Advisers

Iran crisis

Kennan's "Long Telegram" lays out "Containment Doctrine"

Tokyo war crimes trials

Truman Doctrine

Marshall Plan

Taft-Hartley Act

The National Security Act establishes the department of defense, the CIA (Central intelligence Agency) and NSC (National security counsel)

Israel founded;US recognizes it

"Voice of America" begins radio broadcasts behind iron curtain

Alger Hiss case begins

Truman defeats Dewey for presidency

Berlin Blockade

NATO established

Communists defeat nationalists in China

Soviets explode their first atomic bomb

American economy begins postwar growth

McCarthy red-hunt begins

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

Korean War

Truman fires MacArthur

Rosenbergs convicted of treason

United states explodes first hydrogen bomb

Army-McCarthy hearings

Postwar peak of US birthrate

US birthrate falls below replacement level