Post WWII- 1940s- TRUMAN’S ADMINISTRATION
Economic boom that will last 20 years.
Serviceman’s Readjustment Act- GI Bill
Taft Hartley Act- 1947
Rise of Suburbs- Levittown
Baby Boom22nd AmendmentElection of 1948- Republican- Dewey Democrat- Truman Progressive-Wallace Dixiecrats-Thurmond
Fair DealRoots of Cold War- WWII
Satellite states established in eastern EuropeOccupation of Germany- divided into Eastern and Western EuropeBretton Woods- set up the IMF and the World BankBaruch PlanNuremberg TrialsIron Curtain Speech- ChurchillBerlin AirliftTruman DoctrineGeorge F. KennanMarshall PlanNATOWarsaw PactNational Security Act- created the NSCArms RaceLoyalty Review BoardCommittee on Un-American ActivitiesJoseph McCarthy- McCarthyismMcCarran Internal Security Bill-
Alger HissJulius and Ethel RosenbergOccupied JapanChina falls to Communism- Mao ZedongKorea- divided at the 38th parallelKim il Sung/ Syngman Rhee
June 25, 1950- MacArthur-United Nations forces-
1950s- EISENHOWER’S ADMINISTRATION
Election of 1950- VP candidate- Richard Nixon- “checkers speech”
Modern Republicanism- moderate domestic policyNational Highway Act“New Look” in foreign policy- Sec. of State- John Foster Dulles
Massive retaliation- brinkmanshipVIETNAM- Ho Chi MinhDienbienphuNgo Dinh DiemSEATOGeneva ConferenceNikita KhrushchevUprising in Hungary-1956
Iran-1953- Reza Pahlavi- Shah of IranGuatemala- 1954Suez Crisis- Gamal NasserOPEC
Eisenhower Doctrine- LebanonSpace Race- Sputnik- 1957
NDEA-
Camp David meeting-Ike and KhrushchevU2 incidentCastro in Cuba-