1942-1953

  • Servicemen's Readjustment Act

    This act offered low-interest home loans, a stipend to attend college, loans to start a business, and unemployment benefits.
  • Taft-Hartley Act

    This act gave officials the authority to purge communists from the labor union.
  • the Long Telegram

    The US embassy in Moscow sent a lengthy telegram to the State Department denouncing the Soviet Union.
  • Smith-Mundt Act

    This was an act that consisted of cultural exchanges between different nations in order to promote a better understanding of countries.
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

    In 1949, American officials launched the NATO which is a mutual defense pact in which the US and Canada joined England, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, Portugal, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland.
  • Successful atomic bomb

    in 1949, Soviet scientists successfully tested an atomic bomb.
  • Cease fire

    In 1951, the Soviet ambassador to the UN suggested a cease fire, which the US immediately accepted.
  • Eisenhower was elected

    Dwight Eisenhower defeated Adlai Stevenson in the 1952 election