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| 1945 |
Atomic age begins United Nations founded |
| 1946 |
Crises in Iran and Greece Atomic Energy Commission established |
| 1947 |
Communists take over in Hungary Truman Doctrine announced House Un-american Activities Committee investigates Hollywood Jackie Robinson breaks color line in baseball Taft-Hartley Act passed |
| 1948 |
Communists take over in Czechoslovakia Draft re-instated Berlin blockade and airlift Truman elected president Alger Hiss case begins Israel established as nation |
| 1949 |
NATO established Soviet Union explodes atomic bomb Communists take over in China |
| 1950 |
Korean War begins U.S. troops invade North Korea Chinese troops enter war Rosenberg spy trial begins McCarthy begins anti-communist campaign U.S. begins hydrogen bomb program |
| 1951 |
MacArthur relieved of command by Truman Peace negotiations begin in Korea |
| 1952 |
U.S. ends Japanese occupation Eisenhower elected president |
| 1953 |
Korean War ends with truce Stalin dies |
| 1954 |
Army-McCarthy hearings Senate censures McCarthy French surrender at Dienbienphu and partition of Vietnam begins Brown v. Topeka Board of Education rules that separate but equal is unequal |
| 1956 | Suez crisis |
| 1957 |
Soviet Union launches Sputnik Germany joins NATO Little Rock school desegregation crisis |
| 1959 |
Castro takes over in Cuba Khruschev visits U.S. |
Feldmeth, Greg D. "U.S. History Resources"
http://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/USHistory.html (31 March 1998).
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