THE COLD WAR ABROAD AND AT HOME, 1945–1960 CHAPTER 26 THE COLD WAR ABROAD AND AT HOME, 1945–1960

The Postwar Political Setting, 1945–1946 Demobilization and Reconversion The GI Bill of Rights The Economic Boom Begins Truman’s Domestic Program Anticommunism and Containment, 1946–1952 Polarization and Cold War The Iron Curtain Descends Containing Communism Confrontation in Germany The Cold War in Asia

Decolonization in Africa and Asia, 1947–1999

The Postwar Division of Europe, 1945–1989

The Korean War, 1950–1953

The Truman Administration at Home, 1945–1952 The Eightieth Congress, 1947–1948 The Politics of Civil Rights and the Election of 1948 The Fair Deal

The Election of 1948

The Politics of Anticommunism Loyalty and Security The Anticommunist Crusade Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs McCarthyism The Election of 1952