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Bill was created to help veterans of World War II. It established hospitals, made low-interest mortgages available and granted stipends covering tuition and expenses for veterans attending college or trade schools. From 1944 to 1949, nearly 9 million veterans received close to $4 billion from the bill’s unemployment compensation program.
What is GI Bill 1944
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is the name of seven large suburban developments created in the United States of America by William Levitt and his company Levitt & Sons. Built after World War II for returning veterans and their new families
What is Levitttown-1947
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Congress enacted it over President Harry Truman's veto.he Act required Communist organizations to register with the United States Attorney General and established the Subversive Activities Control Board to investigate persons suspected of engaging in subversive activities or otherwise promoting the establishment of a "totalitarian dictatorship," either fascist or communist.
What is McCarran Internal Security Act 1950
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It abolished racial discrimination in the United States Armed Forces and eventually led to the end of segregation in the services.
What is Executive Oder 9981(1948)
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refers to U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy and has its origins in the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, lasting roughly from 1947 to 1956 and characterized by heightened political repression as well as a campaign spreading fear of influence on American institutions and of espionage by Soviet agents.
What is McCarthyism (1947-1956)
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s an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation.
What is United Nations
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is a United States federal law that restricts the activities and power of labor unions. The act, still effective
What is taft hartley act of 1947
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House Un-American Activities Committee was created to investigate communist ties
What is HUAC
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The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative to aid Western Europe,
What is Marshall Plan 1948
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Conflict- fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). The war began in 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea.
What is Korean War
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the national barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989
What is iron curtain
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The act also established the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),
What is National Security Act 1947
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The Court ruled that Dennis did not have the right under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution to exercise free speech, publication and assembly, if the exercise involved the creation of a plot to overthrow the government.
What is Dennis v. United States
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The crisis started on June 24, 1948, when Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin. The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases
What is Berlin Airlift 1948-49
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Armed forces from communist North Korea smash into South Korea, setting off the Korean War.
What is June 25, 1950
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its main purpose was to lay the responsibility of economic stability of inflation and unemployment onto the federal government.[1] The Act stated: it was the "continuing policy and responsibility" of the federal government to:
What is employment act of 1946
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United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. The Truman Doctrine effectively reoriented U.S. foreign policy, away from its usual stance of withdrawal from regional conflicts not directly involving the United States, to one of possible intervention in far away conflicts.
What is Truman Doctrine 1947
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put on trial for perjury bc statute of limitations had ran out for espionage, 2 perjury trials, first was deadlocked, second found him guilty
What is Alger Hiss Care 1948-50
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Truman had called for expanded social security, new wages-and-hours and public-housing legislation, and a permanent Fair Employment Practices Act that would prevent racial or religious discrimination in hiring.
What is Truman's Fair Deal 1949
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December 1950, hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops crossed into North Korea and flung themselves against the American lines, driving the U.S. troops back into South Korea. MacArthur then asked for permission to bomb communist China and use Nationalist Chinese forces from Taiwan against the People’s Republic of China. Truman flatly refused these requests and a very public argument began to develop between the two men.
What is Truman v. MacArthur
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Its purpose was to propose measures to strengthen and protect the civil rights of the American people.
What is committee of Civil Rights-1946
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Truman issued an executive order on March 21, 1947, which set up a program to check the loyalty of federal employees. In announcing his order, Truman indicated that he expected all federal workers to demonstrate “complete and unswerving loyalty” the United States. Anything less, he declared, “constitutes a threat to our democratic processes.”
What is Loyalty Review Board 1947
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg was arrested in July 1950,“Conspiracy to Commit Espionage.” But in a practical sense they were held accountable for giving the so-called “secret of the atomic bomb” to the USSR.
What is Rosenberg Case 1951-53
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is the treaty of alliance concluded between the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union on February 14, 1950. By its terms the Soviet Union recognized the People's Republic of China and recalled recognition of the Republic of China.
What is Sino-Soviet Pact 1950
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The signed armistice established the Korean Demilitarized Zone (de facto a new border between the two nations), put into force a cease-fire, and finalized repatriation of prisoners of war. The Demilitarized Zone runs not far from the 38th parallel, which separated North and South Korea before the Korean War.
What is Armistice of the Korean War