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1 Chapter 26 THE COLD WAR ABROAD AND AT HOME, 1945-1952

2 THE POST-WAR POLITICAL SETTING, 1945-1946 Demobilizing the armed forces Readjusting to civilian life Women in the workforce The effects of the GI Bill

3 THE ECONOMIC BOOM BEGINS The Post War Slump Industrial Rivals The International Monetary Fund The World Bank New Industries Consumer Spending

4 TRUMAN’S DOMESTIC POLICIES The Office of Price Administration The United Mine Workers The Red Scare and American Culture

5 ANTICOMMUNISM AND CONTAINMENT (1946-1952) Poland Stalin’s Buffer Zone The Soviet Red Army Soviet Satellite Nations Economic Relations with Eastern Europe

6 CONTAINMENT (1946) time to “get tough with the Russians” George Kennan The “Long Telegram” (February 1946) containing communism

7 THE IRON CURTAIN DESCENDS (1946) March 1946 Winston Churchill The “Iron Curtain” Speech

8 CONTAINING COMMUNISM Greece and Turkey France and Italy The Truman Doctrine (March 1947) The National Security Act (1947) The Marshall Plan (1947)

9 CONFRONTATION IN GERMANY Hungary and Czechoslovakia West Germany and West Berlin The Berlin Blockade (June 1948) The Berlin Airlift

10 CONFRONTATION IN GERMANY The German Federal Republic (West Germany) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1949) German Democratic Republic (East Germany) Soviet Development of the atomic bomb The Warsaw Pact (not until 1955)

11 THE COLD WAR IN ASIA Mao Zedong Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi) the fall of China to communism (1949)

12 THE KOREAN WAR Japanese Rule of Korea The Division of Korea (The 38 th Parallel) The Republic of Korea (South Korea) The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea)

13 THE KOREAN WAR June 24, 1950 Truman’s Reaction The Soviet Reaction “police action” Douglas MacArthur

14 THE KOREAN WAR Pusan Inchon “rollback” The Yalu River Mao’s Reaction

15 THE KOREAN WAR Spring 1951 MacArthur’s Dismissal U.S. public opinion on Korea Limited warfare Results of the Korean War

16 TRUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS Jackie Robinson Truman attempts Civil Rights legislation The “Solid South” Dixiecrats Strom Thurmond Henry Wallace

17 THE ELECTION OF 1948 Thomas Dewey Truman’s Campaign Election Results

18 THE FAIR DEAL Truman’s Fair Deal Civil Rights Legislation National Health Care Minimum Wage Social Security Benefits Low Income Housing Projects

19 ANTICOMMUNISM Truman’s Federal Employee Loyalty Program (1947) The Anticommunist Crusade J. Edgar Hoover Red Propaganda Music, comic strips, entertainment

20 HUAC The House Un-American Activities Committee HUAC versus Hollywood The Hollywood Ten Blacklisting

21 ANTICOMMUNISM Whittaker Chambers Alger Hiss Richard Nixon “The Pumpkin Papers” Results of the Trial

22 ANTICOMMUNISM Klaus Fuchs Harry Gold David Greenglass Julius and Ethel Rosenberg The Venona Intercepts (1990s)

23 MCCARTHYISM Joseph McCarthy “soft on communism” “card carry communists” False Accusations McCarthyism

24 THE 1952 ELECTION The Korean War Adlai Stevenson Dwight Eisenhower Richard Nixon Election Results

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