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Fidel Castro took power in Cuba
Fidel Castro led a successful rebellion to overthrow the Cuban government. In 1960 Castro signed an economic pact with the Soviet Union, dashing US hopes for a pro-American government in Cuba.
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First Levittown
Entrepreneur William J. Levitt began building the largest housing project in American history. On a thousand acres on Long Island, Levitt built 17,000 homes to accommodate approximately 82,000 people. Levitt soon began constructing houses using assembly-line techniques to produce many more “Levittowns,” a model for suburban planning that proliferated throughout the United States in the 1950s.
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President’s Committee on Civil Rights
President Harry Truman established the President’s Committee on Civil Rights.
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Roosevelt died; Truman became president
Harry S. Truman became president upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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To Secure These Rights
The President’s Committee on Civil Rights released To Secure These Rights, a report that condemned segregation, called for the integration of American society, and made numerous recommendations for the protection of civil rights.
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Military desegregated
The US Armed Forces were desegregated by President Truman’s Executive Order 9981, which barred segregation and discrimination in the armed services.
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Truman defeated Dewey
In an unexpected upset, Harry S. Truman defeated Thomas E. Dewey in the presidential election. Truman had become unpopular in the wake of World War II, and pollsters and the media predicted that Dewey would oust the incumbent. Truman, however, had run a tireless and clever campaign. He took advantage of Dewey’s expectation of a sure win and appealed to labor, civil rights supporters, and the Democratic Party base for political and monetary support. On election day, Truman won 303 electoral votes to Dewey’s 189—segregationist Dixiecrat Strom...
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was established in 1949 as an alliance among Western European and North American nations with the goal of containing communism.
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House Un-American Activities Committee
The House Un-American Activities Committee was a Congressional committee established in 1938 to investigate suspected disloyalty, subversion, and domestic Communism.
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Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency was established in 1947 as a US intelligence-gathering organization tasked with gaining and evaluating military, political, social, and economic information about foreign countries.