From isolation to intervention in the Pacific and Europe. Wartime industrial expansion. Cold War. Korean War. Anticommunist crusade.
Dawes Plan (1924)
Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler
Good Neighbor Policy
Neutrality Act (1935), cash-and-carry
Burke-Wadsworth Act (1940), lend-lease
Atlantic Charter (1941)
Tripartite Pact (1940), Pearl Harbor
Holocaust, Auschwitz
Smith-Connally Act = War Labor Disputes Act (1943)
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Code-talkers
Latchkey children
V-E (Victory in Europe) Day
Kamikaze, Manhattan Project, Enola Gay
Teheran Conference (1943), Yalta Conference (1945), United Nations, Potsdam Conference (1945)
Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Zedong
Harry S. Truman, Truman Doctrine = Containment Doctrine (1947), Marshall Plan (1947)
National Security Act (1947), National Security Council (NSC), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, 1949), Warsaw Pact (1955)
NSC-68 (1950)
Fair Deal
Taft-Hartley Act = Labor-Management Relations Act (1947)
Korean War
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Alger Hiss
McCarran Internal Security Act (1950)
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Joseph McCarthy
Dwight D. Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles, massive retaliation
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