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Truman
nominated for Vice President -
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act
GI Bill of Rights
Offered Federal aid to help veterans adjust to civilian life
Provided tuition, subsistence, books and supplies, equipment, counseling services to continue their education -
Yalta Conference
at Yalta, Ukraine
Stalin operating under spheres of influence -
Postdam Conference
Began with cloud of mistrust
New coldness in relations between USSR and US -
Taft-Harley Labor Act
amend much of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935
Vetoed by Truman
President appoint board of inquiry
Closed shops – illegal
Forbid jurisdictional strikes
Forbids unions from contributing to political campaign
Union leaders to take oath stating that they were not communist -
National Security Act
mandated a major reorganization of foreign policy and military
National Security Council
Central Intelligence Act (CIA)
Department of Defense -
Jackie Robertson
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Election of 1948
Republican Convention
Robert Taft
Thomas Dewey Democratic Convention Dixiecrats Storm Thurmond of South Carolina Harry Truman -
Cold War
all American military personnel maintaining communication equipment – out -
Cold War
US military supply train halted -
Cold War
all land and water access to West Berlin cut off -
Soviets backed down
Officially ended September 30, 1949 -
Election of 1952
Truman chose not to run again
Democratic
Adlai E Stevenson
Republican
Dwight D Eisenhower
VP – Nixon -
Indochina/Vietnam
12,000 French troops parachuted into Dien Bien Phu
Plan: Pleaded for help from US -
Indochina/Vietnam
Viet Minh overwhelmed the French Ended French colonial rule in Asia