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Yalta Conference
Feburary 4, 1945 was the start of the Yalta Conference or Crimea Conference. The meeting was between The Big Three. Winston Churchill (left), Franklin D. Roosevelt (middle), and Joseph Stalin (right). The meeting was about how to rebuild Europe. -
The Death of Franklin D. Roosevelt
On April 1, 1945 at 1300 hours. Franklin D. Roosevelt was sitting at his cottage when he said, "i have a sharp pain behind my head". Turns out it was a brain hemmorage that ended his life in minutes. The longest running president and the man who pulled America out of one of the 2 greatest threats to America was dead. -
The Hollywood Ten
The Hollywood Ten (1950) is an American 16mm short documentary film. In the film, each member of the Hollywood Ten made a short speech denouncing McCarthyism and the Hollywood Blacklisting. -
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The Second Red Scare
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The Truman Doctrine
On March 12, 1947, Harry S. Truman set a policy by speech that is known as the Truman Doctrine. Harry S. Truman told Congress the Doctrine was "the policy of the United States to support free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." -
Taft-Hartley Act
The Labor Management Relations Act or Taft-Hartley Act is a United States federal law. The act, still effective, was sponsored by Senator Robert Taft and Representative Fred A. Hartley, Jr. and became law by overcoming U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto on June 23, 1947; labor leaders called it the "slave-labor bill. -
Czechoslovak coup
The 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état (often simply the Czech coup). The Czech Coup was an event late that February in which the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, with Soviet backing, assumed undisputed control over the government of Czechoslovakia, -
Glen Taylor's Arrest
Glen Taylor was an American politician. He was a U.S. senator. Also a member of the Democratic party. He was arrested for using a door reserved for a black man -
Berlin Airlift
the Western Allies organized the Berlin airlift to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin. Aircrews from the United States Air Force, the British Royal Air Force, the Royal Australian Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force, Royal New Zealand Air Force, and South African Air Force flew over 200,000 flights in one year, providing up to 4700 tons of daily necessities such as fuel and food to the Berliners.[4] -
Soviet rejects Marshall Plan
The Soviet reaction to Marshall's speech was a stony silence. However, Foreign Minister Molotov agreed to a meeting on June 27 with his British and French counterparts to discuss the European reaction to the American offer. -
Desegregation of the U.S. Military
the desegregation of the military took place in 1948. Desirous of African American political support and wanting to bolster U.S. reputation abroad, Truman decided to desegregate the military.
