1. The Beginning of the Cold War

2. Soviet-American Tensions
Capitalism vs Communism
The Yalta Conference
The United Nations
Occupation of Poland
Lublin Poles vs. London Poles
Occupation of Germany
Atomic bomb

3. The “Big Three”

4. Containment China’s fall to communism Chiang vs. Mao Zedong
Revival of Japan
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Sec. of State George C. Marshall
Economic Cooperation Administration

5. President Truman

6. Containment (con’t) Preparedness Selective Service System
Atomic Energy Commission
National Security Act
Department of Defense
National Security Council
CIA

7. Division of Germany
Federal Republic
Democratic Republic
NATO
Warsaw Pact

8. U.S. Economy Servicemen’s Readjustment Act Labor unrest Strikes
Displaced workers
Truman’s “Fair Deal”
Social Security benefits
Fair Employment Practices Act
Conservatism
Taft-Hartley Act

9. The Election of 1948 Democrats divided Dixiecrat Party Strom Thurmond
Americans for Democratic Action
Thomas Dewey-Republican
Good for nothing Congress

10. Truman’s Fair Deal Revised
Minimum wage
Social Security
National Housing Act
Civil rights legislation
Fair Employment Practices Committee
Discrimination and Segregation

11. The Korean War 38th Parallel Communist north Pro-western south
A Civil War
U.S. “defense perimeter”
UN Assistance
General Douglas MacArthur
Chinese involvement
The Martin Letter
Truman fires MacArthur
Korean war results

12. General Douglas MacArthur

13. The U.S. During the Korean War
Economy
Office of Defense Mobilization
Labor strikes
Anxiety grows regarding communism

14. Subversion in America House Un-American Activities Commission
The evils of Hollywood
The Hollywood Ten
“blacklist”
Federal Loyalty Program
Hoover Files
McCarran Internal Security Act
The Rosenberg Case
McCarthyism
Joseph McCarthy

15. Senator Joe McCarthy

16. The Rosenbergs

17. Election of 1952 Adlai Stevenson Dwight Eisenhower Richard M. Nixon
Republican Victory

18. “We Like Ike”

19. Dwight Eisenhower