1. The Cold War Begins Post WW II Prosperity Containment of Communism 1945-1960

2. Queen Mary brings US troops home

3. FDR Signs G.I. Bill Post-war Demand for Housing Increases Taft-Hartley Act Limits Union Power No “closed shop” No sit-down strikes Government can stop some strikes if in the national interest Unions can be held liable for damages in some disputes Union officers must sign oaths that they do not belong to C.P. No secondary boycotts

4. Postwar “Baby Boom”

5. Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin at Yalta, 1945

6. United Nations General Assembly

8. Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” Speech

10. George Kennan, author of “Long Telegram” “Containment” Policy

11. Truman Doctrine, 1947 US military aid to Greece and Turkey to prevent spread of communism

12. George Marshall

13. French farmers benefit from Marshall Plan

15. Berlin Airlift, 1948

17. Thomas E. Dewey, NY Republican, 1948

18. Strom Thurmond, SC “Dixiecrat”

19. Henry Wallace, 1948 “Progressive”

20. Truman defeats Dewey, 1948

23. Mao Zedong “The Chairman” People’s Republic of China Chiang Kai Shek

24. Ho Chi Minh

25. Cold War Alliances NATO, 1949 Belgium Canada Greece Denmark Turkey France W. Germany Great Britain Iceland Luxembourg The Netherlands Norway Portugal United States Warsaw Pact, 1955 Albania Bulgaria Czechoslovakia East Germany Hungary Poland Romania Soviet Union

26. US Armed Forces Desegregate

27. Korean War, 1950-1953

28. Kim Il Sung North Korea

29. Syngman Rhee South Korea

31. Douglas MacArthur Matthew Ridgway

32. Armistice, Korea 1953

33. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover

34. Communist Spies, prominent in 1940s Elizabeth Bentley Nathan Silvermaster Harry Dexter White Lauchlin Currie I.F. Stone

35. Alger Hiss, Communist Spy

36. US Congressman Richard Nixon, Repub California House Unamerican Activities Committee

37. Communist Spies, the Rosenbergs Ethel Julius

38. Sen. Joseph McCarthy

39. Eisenhower Nixon 1952, 1956 “We Like Ike!”

40. Adlai Stevenson, 1952 and 1956 Democrat from Illinois “I’m madly for Adlai!”

42. Nikita Khrushchev Soviet leader after death of Stalin, 1953

43. “Uncle Ho” Communist Leader, North Vietnam Ho Chi Minh

44. Vietnamese Communists defeat French at Dienbienphu, 1954 Ngo Dinh Diem organizes anti- communist regime in South Viet Nam, below 17 th parallel

45. Gamel Abdul Nasser, Arab Nationalist

46. Suez Crisis of 1956 produces “Eisenhower Doctrine” US Opposes spread of communism into Middle East US convinces UK, France, Israel not to invade Egypt

47. Hungarians rebel against Soviet control, 1956 Russian tanks and troops crush short-lived revolt US Sec. of State John Foster Dulles Khrushchev disallows secession from Warsaw Pact

48. Sputnik, 1957

49. Fidel Castro takes power in Cuba, 1959 Che Guevara

50. Beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement Julian Bond Bob Moses MLK Stokely Carmichael Bayard Rustin

51. Jackie Robinson, trailblazer athlete Brooklyn Dodgers, 1947

52. Thurgood Marshall, NAACP Brown vs Bd of Education, 1954

53. US Supreme Court orders schools to desegregate in 9-0 decision, 1954 “all deliberate speed”

54. Chief Justice Earl Warren NAACP lawyers

56. Rosa Parks

57. Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-6 Dexter Ave. Baptist Church King arrested Parks rides in front after successful bus boycott and court case

58. Lunch counter sit-in, 1960 Desegregation in the South, late 1950s

59. Little Rock Nine, 1957

60. Martin Luther King, Jr. Southern Christian Leadership Conference

61. The Kennedy Brothers Robert John