Chiang Kai-shek Taft-Hartley Act, 1947 Taiwan Mao Zedong Berlin Airlift, 1948 status quo ante (how does this quote relate to the Korean War?) John Foster Dulles Creation of Israel, 1948 brinksmanship Nikita Khrushchev Alger Hiss case, 1948 massive retaliation Francis Gary Powers NATO created, 1949 peaceful coexistence Whitaker Chambers Soviet Union tests its first CIA atomic bomb, 1949 Richard Nixon military-industrial complex (see Communists gain control of Ike’s Farewell Speech) Thomas Dewey China, 1949 Dixiecrats Strom Thurmond Joseph McCarthy accuses the State Department of employing HUAC communists, 1950 Jonas Salk Hollywood Ten McCarran Internal Security Act passes over Truman’s veto, 1950 blacklist McCarthyism Korean War, 1950-1953 Levitt town U.S. tests the first H-bomb, baby boom 1952 beatniks Joseph Stalin died, 1953 rock roll ‘n’ Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed, 1953 Joseph McCarthy censured, 1954 Eisenhower Doctrine, 1957 Sputnik launched by the Soviet Union, 1957 U-2 shot down over the Soviet Union, 1960 Eisenhower’s Farewell Address, 1961
Taft-Hartley Act, 1947 Berlin Airlift, 1948 Creation of Israel, 1948 Alger Hiss case, 1948 NATO created, 1949 Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, 1949 Communists gain control of China, 1949 Joseph McCarthy accuses the State Department of employing communists, 1950 McCarran Internal Security Act passes over Truman’s veto, 1950 Korean War, 1950-1953 U.S. tests the first H-bomb, 1952 Joseph Stalin died, 1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed, 1953 Joseph McCarthy censured, 1954 Eisenhower Doctrine, 1957 Sputnik launched by the Soviet Union, 1957 U-2 shot down over the Soviet Union, 1960 Eisenhower’s Farewell Address, 1961 Chiang Kai-shek Mao Zedong John Foster Dulles Nikita Khrushchev Francis Gary Powers Whitaker Chambers Richard Nixon Thomas Dewey Strom Thurmond Jonas Salk Taiwan status quo ante (how does this quote relate to the Korean War?) brinksmanship massive retaliation peaceful coexistence CIA military-industrial complex (see Ike’s Farewell Speech) Dixiecrats HUAC Hollywood Ten blacklist McCarthyism Levitt town baby boom beatniks rock ‘n’ roll
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