Study Tool: Chronological Events of the 1946-1952
Era
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Does not include issues on social history covered separately.
The column US Land Expansion is removed (although the
Date |
Pres. Election /
Event |
Beyond |
Foreign |
Government
Institutions |
US Econ. Dev. |
Issue/ Org. Dev. |
Political Party
Dev. |
1945-11 |
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Nuremberg Trials[1]
begin |
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1946-02 |
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Council of
Economic Advisors est. |
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1946-03 |
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Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech |
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1946-08 |
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Greece: Civil war Br: Withdrawing
from region |
$25M in credits |
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1946-10 |
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Korea: US/USSR at
38th Parallel |
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1946-11 |
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Republican victories; control 1st in 14 yrs. |
1947-03 |
Executive Order:
Loyalty Program[2] |
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Truman Doctrine |
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1947-04+ |
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Turkey: Soviet
pressures on |
Aid to Greece, Turkey |
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1947-05 |
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Occupied Japan:
New Constitution[3] |
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1947-06 |
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Marshall Plan |
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Taft-Hartley Act |
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1947-07 |
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National Security
Council; CIA est. |
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Kennan, Foreign
Affairs, on “containment” |
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Dept. of Defense
est.[4] |
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1947-09 |
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Cominform est. |
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1948-03 |
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Czechoslovakia:
coup; Soviet gains |
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1948-06 |
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Berlin blockade[5] |
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Selective Service
through 1951 |
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1948-07 |
Executive Order:
desegregation of armed forces |
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1948-08 |
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Alger Hiss case
begins |
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1948-11 |
Thomas E. Dewey
vs. Harry S Truman vs. J. Strom Thurmond (Dixiecrat) |
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Republican
increases |
1949 |
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Soviet Union:
atomic weapon |
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1949-01 |
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Trial of Communist
Party leaders |
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1949-04 |
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NATO est. |
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1949-08 |
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Minimum wage from
$.40 to $.75 |
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1949-12 |
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China:
Nationalists flee to Taiwan |
Acheson’s NSC-68 |
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1950-01 |
Hydrogen bomb
announced[6] |
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1950-02 |
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Joseph McCarthy –
Wheeling, W.Va. speech[7] |
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1950-06 |
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Korea: North
invades South |
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1950-06-20 |
Without Congress,
sent troops |
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1950-11 |
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China: Joins Korea |
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Republican
increases |
1951-02 |
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22nd
Amendment[8] |
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1951-04 |
Removal of
MacArthur |
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1951-07 |
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Korea:
Negotiations begin[9] |
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1952-11 |
Dwight D.
Eisenhower vs. Adlai Stevenson |
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Richard Nixon’s “Checkers speech” |
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[1] Japanese tried by an International Military Tribunal beginning 1946-01
[2] Attorney General (Tom Clark): communists “everywhere” - Congress: HUAC in 1946 alleged Communists in Treasury, Agriculture; 1947, “Hollywood Ten”
[3] Occupation ends in 1952 per Peace treaty with Japan signed by 49 nations.
[4] Combination of Departments of War and Navy
[5] 1961, Soviets build wall between East, West Berlin. 1989-11, following opening of wall per Soviet decision , workers pulled down 1st section.
[6] US hydrogen bomb exploded 1952-11. Br: 1952-10, its first atomic weapon.
[7] Not stopped until Eisenhower’s term
[8] Presidency limited to 2 terms
[9] Not resolved until Eisenhower’s term