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Cold War
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Hollywood Ten
In 1947 Roy M. Brewer was appointed to the Motion Picture Industry Council. At this time the HUCA chaired by J. Parnell Thomas, began an investigation into the Hollywoord Motion Picture Industry. The HUCA in October, 1947. He claimed that he knew 13 writers, actors, and directors he said were involved in communist plans. -
HUAC
The House of Un-American Activities Committee was originally established in 1937 under the chairmanship of Martin Dies. The main cause of the HUAC was the investigation of un-American and subversie activities. Soon after his appointment Dies recieved a telagram from the Ku Klux Klan. "Every true American, and that includes every Klansman, is behind you and your committe in its effort to turn the country back to the honest, freedom-loving, God-fearing American to whom it belongs." -
The beginning of the baby boom
Young males coming back to the United States, Canada, and Austrlia following tours of duty overseas during World War 2 began families, which brought a lot of new children into the world. In the Inuted States 7.9 million babies were born during the Baby Boom. New births continued to grow throught the 1940s and 1950s, leading to a peak in the late 1950s with 4.3 million births in 1957 and 1961. By the mid 60s, the birth rate began to slowly fall. -
The Red Scare.
Shortly after the end of World War 1 and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, the Red Scare took hold in the United States. A nationwide fear of communists, socialists, anarchists, and other dissidents suddenly grabbed the American psyche in 1919 following anarchist bombings. The nation was gripped in gear. -
Yalta Conference
Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin showed up to discuss war strategy and issues that would affect the postwar world. Franklin Roosevelt came from the United States. Winston Churchill came fromt Great Britain. Joseph Stalin came from the USSR. At this meeting they decided to divide Germany into four parts. They determined they would be democratic.l -
Creation of the U.N.
The ghost of Woodro Wilson was in the mind of every person and insitution, public or private, who set out to think about, plan for, or create a new system of world security to have peace. Wilson's advisers, talked him into confer with number of Senators during the summer. These talks only showed the political fact that he did not have enough votes to apporve the treaty without further amendments. -
Potsdam Conference
They had this meeting on July 17th-August 2, 1995. The Allies set up new rules for Germany. A council of Foreign Ministers was established to consider peace settlements. The so-called Potsdam Declaration pretty much said Japan as two options. Choices were unconditional surrender or total destruction. The Allied Control Council for Germany was at first blocked by France. -
End of World War 2
It ended by surrender of the Axis Powers. Germany surrendered on May 7th to the Western Allies, and on May 8th to the Soviet Union about a week after Hitler killed himself. So we took the Victory and returned home.(: -
The Truman Doctrine
On March 12, 1947, President Harry S. Truman presented this address before a joint session of congress. The Truman Doctrine asked congress for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece. On Friday, February 21, 1947, the British Embassy informed the U.S. State Department Officials that Great Britain could no longer provide financial aid to the governments of Greece and Turkey. -
The Marshall Plan
Between 1948 and 1951, the United States poured financial aiding totaling $13 billion into the economies of western Europe. Officially termed the European Recovery Program (ERP), the Marshall Plan was approved by Congress in the Economice Cooperation Act of April 1948. The Marshall Plan was by no means the first U.S. aid program for post-war Europe. Already during 1945-1947, the U.S. paid out substanial financial assisstance to Europe under various different schemes. -
Formation of NATO
After World War 2, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. took over much of Eurpose. Most of the continent's governments had fallen to the Nazis during the war, so the two superpowers were left with the responsibility of setting up new governments. Each promised to allow free elections, but in the ends, did not. This left eastern and western Europe divided by style of government and left Germany divided between the two superpowers. -
The Nuclear Arms Race
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McCarthyism
In the 1950s, thousands of Americans who toiled in the government, served in the army, worked in the movie industry, or come from various walks of life had to answer that question before a congressional Panel. Senator Joseph McCarthy rose to national prominence by initiationg a probe to ferret ouot communists holding prominent positions. -
The Korean War
On June 25, 1950, the young Cold War suddenly turned hot, bloody, and expensive. Withing a few days, North Korea's invasion of South Korea brought about a United Nations' "police action" against the aggressors. That immediately produced heavy military and naval involvement by the United States. Nobody expected that this violent conflict would continue for more then three years. -
Rosenbergs
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Formation of the Warsaw Pact.
The Soviet Union and seven other countries under the domination signed a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization that put the Soviet's in command of the armed forces of the member states. The Warsaw Pact is named Warsaw, because the treaty was signed in Warsaw. The treaty called on the member states to come to the defense of any member attacked by an outside force and it set up a unified military command under Marshal Ivan S. Konev of the Soviet Union.
