Timeline and Terms

Events

Army-McCarthy hearings
Atoms for Peace plan
Baghdad Pact
Berlin airlift
Berlin blockade
Berlin Wall erected
Churchill’s “Sinews of Peace” speech
Communist revolution in China
Creation of West Germany
Dennis et al. v. United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower elected
Eisenhower Doctrine
Eisenhower in Korea
Fair Deal
Federal Employee Loyalty Program established
Fidel Castro took power in Cuba
First Levittown
Geneva Agreement
George Kennan’s “Long Telegram”
GI Bill
House Un-American Activities Hollywood investigation
Hydrogen bomb test
Immigration and Nationality Act
Internal Security Act of 1950
Israel established
Korean War
Marshall Plan
Military desegregated
NASA established
National Defense Education Act
National Security Act of 1947
NSC-68
Nuclear test moratorium
President’s Committee on Civil Rights
Roosevelt died; Truman became president
Rosenbergs arrested
Sputnik I
Taft-Hartley Act
To Secure These Rights
Truman defeated Dewey
Truman Doctrine
Warsaw Pact

People

A. Philip Randolph
Alger Hiss
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Fulgencio Batista
Harry S. Truman
Henry Wallace
Herbert Hoover
Ho Chi Minh
J. Edgar Hoover
John F. Kennedy
John Hersey
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph Stalin
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Leonid Brezhnev
Nikita Khrushchev
Strom Thurmond
Thomas E. Dewey
Winston Churchill

Places

38th parallel
fallout shelter
Hiroshima
third world

Organizations

Central Intelligence Agency
Dixiecrat Party
fellow travelers
General Assembly (of the United Nations)
Hollywood Ten
House Un-American Activities Committee
National Security Council
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Organization of American States
Peace Corps
Security Council (of the United Nations)