 Yalta, Feb 1945 Cold War and Harry Truman, 1945-1952 ______ Truman’s First Term, April 1945 ______o Policies ______. Pro-New Deal: 21 points ______. Rapid demobilization ______o Economy ______

. Rapid Growth ______ The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, 1944 (GI ______Bill) ______. Concerns about Inflation ______ Demands for higher wages ______ Rising Prices ______o Congressional Election of 1946 ______. “To err is Truman” ______o Republican Congress ______o Bipartisan Cooperation ______. National Security Act, 1947 ______. Presidential Succession Act, 1947 ______. 22nd Amendment, 1951 ______o Foreign Policy ______. United Nations ______. Relations with the Soviets – The Cold War ______ Eastern Europe ______

 Containment ______o Origins ______. George Kennan ______o Truman Doctrine ______o Examples ______

. Greece, 1946 ______. Western Europe, c. 1947 ______ Marshall Plan ______. West Germany ______ Berlin Airlift ______. NATO ______ Warsaw Pact, created in c. ______1954 ______

. Israel ______. Race ______o Jackie Robinson ______o 1946 Georgia Lynching ______o 1948 Election ______. Republicans  Thomas Dewey ______. Democrats ______

 Truman’s Campaign ______

______ Divisions in the Democratic Party ______o Southern Desertion ______. Why  President’s Committee on ______Civil Rights, 1946 ______ 1948 State of the Union ______ Executive order, July 1948 ______ Hubert Humphrey’s speech ______. State’s Rights Democrats AKA ______Dixiecrats, July 1948 ______

 Stom Thurmond ______o Left Wing Desertion, July 1948 ______. Henry Wallace to a Progressive Ticket ______ Truman’s counter offensive ______o Whistle Stop Tour ______. “Give ‘em hell Harry” ______. Results ______ Biggest upset in American history ______

 Truman’s Second Term, 1949-1952 ______o Domestic Policy ______. Fair Deal ______o Foreign Policy ______. Four Points ______. Challenges ______ China ______ Vietnam, 1950 ______ Russian Bomb, 1949 ______

. H-Bombs, 1950 ______ Korean War ______. 38th Parallel ______. General MacArthur ______. Landing at Inchon, Sept 1950 ______ Pressed the North back to the 38th parallel ______. China gets involved, Oct 1950 ______. Stalemate ______

. push toward the 38th parallel ______

. Truman fired MacArthur ______o Red Scares ______. Origins ______ House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938 ______

 Executive Order 9835, March 1947 ______. Accusations ______ Hollywood Ten, c. 1947 ______ Alger Hiss, 1948 ______ Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, 1950 ______. Exploitation of Fear ______ Senator Joseph McCarthy, Feb 1950 ______

o McCarran Internal Security Act, 1950 ______

o Lavender Scares ______. McCarran-Walter Immigration and ______Nationality Act ______