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1946 | Philippines regain their independence from the U.S. |
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1946 | Civil Rights Commission |
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1946 | American plan for control of atomic energy fails |
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1946 | Atomic Energy Act |
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1946 | Iran crisis |
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1946 | Employment Act |
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1947 | Presidential Succession Act |
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1947 | National Security Act |
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1947 | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
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1947 | Soviet Union rejects U.S. plan for UN atomic-energy control |
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1947 | Truman proposes Truman Doctrine, which was to aid Greece and Turkey in resisting communist expansion GO ! |
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1947 | Marshall Plan for European recovery proposed—a coordinated program to help European nations recover from ravages of war GO ! |
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1947 | Defence budget of $13 billion |
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1947 | Federal Employee Loyalty Program |
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1947 | House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigates the movie industry |
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1947 | Taft-Hartley Act |
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1948 | Marshall Plan GO ! |
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1948 | Truman desegregates armed forces |
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1948 | Organization of American States: Alliance of North America and South America |
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1948 | Berlin airlift |
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1948 | Hiss-Chambers case |
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1948 | Truman elected president GO ! |
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1948 | "Dixiecrat" party formed |
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1949 | Start of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)—treaty signed by 12 nations GO ! |
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1949 | Truman launches Fair Deal |
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1950 | Korean War begins GO ! |
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1950 | McCarthyism begins in U.S. |
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1950 | Truman orders development of hydrogen bomb |
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1950 | Alger Hiss convicted |
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1950 | NSC-68 |
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1950 | McCarran Internal Security Act |
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1951 | 22cd Amendment GO ! |
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1951 | Mutual Security Act |
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1951 | Truman signs peace treaty with Japan, officially ending WWII |
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1951 | Dennis v. United States (free speech is a guaranteed right, but not an unlimited one - "clear and present danger") |
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1952 | Immigration and Nationality Act |
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1952 | ANZUS Treaty enters into force |
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1952 | McCarthy heads Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee |
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1953 | Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower inaugurated president of United States GO ! |
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1953 | Defence budget of $47 billion |
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1953 | End of Korean War GO ! |
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1953 | Submerged Lands Act |
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1954 | Saint Lawrence Seaway Act |
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1954 | Baghdad Pact |
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1954 | Eight-nation Southeast Asia defence treaty (SEATO) signed at Manila GO ! |
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1954 | Geneva Conference |
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1954 | Guatemalan government overthrown with CIA help |
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1954 | Army-McCarthy hearings |
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1954 | Brown v. Board of Education ("in the eyes of the law, justice is color-blind." - beginning of civil rights movement) GO ! |
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1950 | Warsaw Pact |
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1955 | Merger of AFL and CIO |
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1956 | Eisenhower reelected |
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1956 | Suez incident |
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1956 | Interstate Highway Act |
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1957 | Yates v. United States (the Court draws a distinction between a statement of an idea and the advocacy that a certain action be taken - freedom of speech) |
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1957 | Eisenhower Doctrine |
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1957 | Civil Rights Act GO ! |
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1958 | National Defense Education Act |
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1958 | NASA formed |
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1958 | Eisenhower orders U.S. Marines into Lebanon at request of President Chamoun, who fears overthrow |
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1959 | Alaska is the 49th admitted to the Union |
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1959 | Hawaii is the 50th admitted to the Union |
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1959 | Landrum-Griffin Act |
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1959 | Alaska and Hawaii become states |
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1960 | Civil Rights Act of 1960 |
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1960 | American U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, shot down over Russia ; Khrushchev kills Paris summit conference as a result |
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1960 | Cuba begins confiscation of $770 million of U.S. property |
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1960 | J.F.Kennedy elected president |
