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1936
Butler v. United States ruling
1939
Congress passes the Hatch Act
1938
House Un-American Activities Committee created
1944
Congress passes Montgomery G.I. Bill
1945
United Nations forms
Nuremberg trials begin
Japan surrenders
1946
Tokyo trials begin
Congress passes Employment Act
1947
Marshall Plan implemented
Doctrine of containment emerges
Truman articulates Truman Doctrine
Congress passes National Security Act
Congress passes Taft-Hartley Act
1948
Israel becomes a nation
Truman orders Berlin airlift
Alger Hiss accused of being a Soviet operative
Truman wins presidential election
1949
NATO is formed
China falls to Communist forces
1950
Congress passes McCarran Internal Security Bill
Korean War begins
U.S. forces land at Inchon
MacArthur retakes South Korea
Chinese troops force MacArthur back to Seoul
1951
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg convicted of espionage
Truman fires MacArthur
1952
United States develops first hydrogen bomb
Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected president
Jonas Salk develops polio vaccine
1953
Korean War ends with signing of armistice
CIA-backed coup in Iran
1954
Army-McCarthy hearings held
Supreme Court issues Brown v. Board of Education ruling
CIA-backed coup in Guatemala
Dien Bien Phu falls to pro-Communist forces
Geneva Conference splits Vietnam into two countries
SEATO is founded
1955
AFL-CIO forms
Warsaw Pact is signed
1956
Congress passes Federal Highway Act
Suez crisis erupts
USSR puts down Hungarian Revolution
Eisenhower is reelected
1957
Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957
Little Rock crisis erupts
Eisenhower Doctrine is announced
USSR launches Sputnik I
1958
Congress passes National Defense Education Act
1959
Congress passes Landrum-Griffin Act
1960
U-2 incident embarrasses U.S. government
John F. Kennedy is elected president
1961
Eisenhower gives farewell address
Soviet-dominated East Germany erects Berlin Wall
Kennedy creates Peace Corps
United States sends “military advisors” to Vietnam
Bay of Pigs invasion fails
1962
Cuban missile crisis erupts
1963
Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed
Washington-Moscow “hotline” established
Ngo Dinh Diem is overthrown in South Vietnam
Kennedy is assassinated; Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president
