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The Cold War Abroad and at Home

By caroline.zukowsky

  • Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill) Approved

    GI BIll Document and Summary

  • Postwar strike wave begins

    Timeline of United Mine Workers' Strikes (Take a look at the summary in 1946)

  • Employment Act Passed

    Summary

  • Truman elected President

    Biography of President Truman

  • 1946 Brief Events

    Coal Miners' Strike, More than a million GIs attend college, Inflation soars to more than 18%, and Republicans win control of Congress

  • George Kennan's "long telegram"

  • Winston Churchill's "iron curtain" speech

    Speech

  • Marshall Plan to aid Europe Proposed

    Summary (Really good!)

  • Truman Doctrine

    Document

  • Taft-Hartley Act

    Summary!

  • National Security Act

    Summary

  • Communist coup in Czechoslovakia

    Coup

  • State of Israel Founded

  • Soviet Union begins blockade of Berlin; US begins airlift

  • Communist leaders put on trial under the Smith Act

    More Information

  • East and West Germany founded as Seperate Nations

  • NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Established

    Summary

  • Soviet Union detonates an atomic bomb

  • Communist Victory in China; People's Republic of China established

    Summary

  • Joseph McCarthy launches anticommunist crusades

    More Info

  • Alger Hiss convicted of perjury

    Cool Sight About Hiss!

  • Truman authorizes building a hydrogen bomb

    More Information

  • Truman accepts NSC-68

    Great Information!

  • Korean War Begins

    China later enters!

  • Julius and Ethel Rosenberg arrested as atomic spies

    Great overview! Later, they are convicted of espionage and sentenced to death in 1951.

  • McCarran Internal Security Act

    Brief (good!) Overview

  • Supreme Court upholds Smith Act

  • Douglas MacArthur dismissed for Korean Command

  • First Hydrgoen Bomb Exploded

    Great overview!

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower elected President; Republicans win control of Congress

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