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Bank Panic
This panic was spread throughout the nation, with many people doing bank-runs to get all of their money out of the banks -
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America: A Superpower and the Cold War
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FDR's first term
Inaugurated on this date and had to face the Great Depression. Main tasks were to help the economy and pull through the depression. -
First New Deal
First 100 days FDR sent many bills to Congress which passed, tried to relieve America of the economic downfall. -
Second New Deal 1935-1936
Not exact date, but this was the second new deal of which FDR tried to pass more bills and reforms to aid the United States' economic downfall. -
National Inustrial Recovery Act
Found unconstitutional on this date. -
Fair Labor Standards Act
This Act was passed in order to create laws on how much someone had to be payed, which created the minumum wage. With this passed, many came to work in America throughout the world knowing pay was decent. -
Pearl Harbor
On this day Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese,thus creating the need and force for America to enter the war. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was a WWII meeting between the heads of state of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union. Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met in February, 1945 at Yalta, in the Crimea, to plan the occupation of postwar Germany. -
FDR leaves office
After having served four terms, FDR leaves office. He does this after WWll ends and With all of the help of the New Deal and the industrial boost the war brought, America was able to get out of the Great Deppression. -
Soviets agree to give up power in West Berlin
Soviet Union promises to hand power over to British and U.S. forces in West Berlin. Although the division of Berlin (and of Germany as a whole) into zones of occupation was seen as a temporary postwar expedient, the dividing lines quickly became permanent. The divided city of Berlin became a symbol for Cold War tensions. -
U.S. Senate approves United Nations charter
In a declaration that America's pre-World War II isolation was truly at an end, the U.S. Senate approves the charter establishing the United Nations. -
U.S. uses atomic bombs
The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of WWII. These two events are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date. -
Truman Doctrine
In a speech to a joint session of Congress, President Harry S. Truman asks for U.S. assistance for Greece and Turkey to forestall communist domination of the two nations. This may be considered as the official declaration of the Cold War. -
Peacetime draft
President Harry S. Truman issues a military draft calling almost 10 million men to register for military service within the next two months. Truman's action came during increasing Cold War tensions with the Soviet Union. -
U.S rejects Stalin
In response to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's proposal that President Harry S. Truman travel to Russia for a conference, Secretary of State Dean Acheson brusquely rejects the idea and thus creates tension between the two powers. -
NATO
The United States and 11 other nations establish the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a mutual defense pact aimed at containing possible Soviet aggression against Western Europe. -
National Security Bill
President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Bill, which establishes the Department of Defense. As the Cold War progressed the Department of Defense became the source of America's military effort to contain the expansion of communism. -
NSC-68
President Harry S. Truman receives National Security Council Paper Number 68 (NSC-68). This report was created from the Defense Department, the State Department, the CIA, and other interested agencies; NSC-68 formed the basis for America's Cold War policy for the next two decades. -
U.S. forces to Korea
President Harry S. Truman orders U.S. armed forces to assist in defending that nation from invading North Korean armies. Truman's step marked the official entry of the United States into the Korean War. -
State of emergency
President Harry S. Truman declares a state of emergency. Proclaiming that "Communist imperialism" threatened the world's people, Turman called Americans to create an "arsenal of freedom." -
Stalin attacks the UN
In a statement focusing on the situation in Korea, Joseph Stalin charges that the United Nations has become "a weapon of aggressive war." He also suggested that although a world war was not inevitable at the time people in the West might trigger such a conflict. -
Cold War dangers
In his State of the Union address, President Harry S. Truman warns Americans that they must use vigorous action to meet the communist threat. -
Rejected isolationism
In a forceful speech, President Dwight D. Eisenhower strikes back at critics of his Cold War foreign policy. He insisted that the United States was committed to the worldwide battle against communism and that he would maintain a strong U.S. defense. Eisenhower spoke his basic approach to foreign policy with this speech. -
Allies leave West Germany
West Germany becomes a sovereign state when the United States, France, and Great Britain end their military occupation, which had begun in 1945. With this action, West Germany was given the right to rearm and become a full-fledged member of the western alliance against the Soviet Union. -
Warsaw Pact
This treaty was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states during the Cold War, under the influence of the Soviet Union. -
Hydrogen bomb - Bikini Atoll
The United States conducts the first airborne test of an improved hydrogen bomb, dropping it from a plane over the island of Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The successful test indicated that hydrogen bombs were ready to use and the arms race had taken another giant leap forward. -
Sputnik I
The successful launch of the unmanned satellite Sputnik I by the Soviet Union in October 1957 shocks and frightens many Americans. This made many feel as if the U.S. was not as advanced and powerful as the Soviets. -
NASA
The United States Congress passes legislation formally inaugurating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The establishment of NASA showed the America was ready to win the "space race".
