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Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill) Approved
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Postwar strike wave begins
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Employment Act Passed
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Truman elected President
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1946 Brief Events
Coal Miners' Strike, More than a million GIs attend college, Inflation soars to more than 18%, and Republicans win control of Congress -
George Kennan's "long telegram"
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Winston Churchill's "iron curtain" speech
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Marshall Plan to aid Europe Proposed
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Truman Doctrine
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Taft-Hartley Act
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National Security Act
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Communist coup in Czechoslovakia
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State of Israel Founded
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Soviet Union begins blockade of Berlin; US begins airlift
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Communist leaders put on trial under the Smith Act
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East and West Germany founded as Seperate Nations
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NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Established
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Soviet Union detonates an atomic bomb
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Communist Victory in China; People's Republic of China established
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Joseph McCarthy launches anticommunist crusades
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Alger Hiss convicted of perjury
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Truman authorizes building a hydrogen bomb
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Truman accepts NSC-68
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Korean War Begins
China later enters! -
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg arrested as atomic spies
Great overview! Later, they are convicted of espionage and sentenced to death in 1951. -
McCarran Internal Security Act
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Supreme Court upholds Smith Act
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Douglas MacArthur dismissed for Korean Command
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First Hydrgoen Bomb Exploded
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Dwight D. Eisenhower elected President; Republicans win control of Congress