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CHAPTER 31 | THE FAIR DEAL AND CONTAINMENT | OVERVIEW

CHAPTER TIMELINE
1944	Servicemen’s Readjustment Act
April 1945	FDR died
1946	Employment Act
1946	Atomic Energy Commission created
1946	President’s Committee on Civil Rights formed
March 1947	Truman Doctrine announced
April 1947	Jackie Robinson integrated major league baseball
1947	Taft-Hartley Act
1947	National Security Act
1948	Marshall Plan started
1948	Creation of Israel
June 1948–May 1949	Berlin Airlift
July 1948	Truman ended racial discrimination in federal hiring and racial segregation in the armed forces
1948–1950	Alger Hiss case
April 1949	North Atlantic Treaty Organization formed
1949	Communists took control of China
1949	Soviet Union exploded atomic bomb
1950	NSC-68 produced
February 9, 1950	Joseph McCarthy made his first charges
June 25, 1950	North Korea invaded South Korea
June 1950–July 1953	Korean War
1950	McCarran Internal Security Act passed
April 1951	MacArthur dismissed

CHAPTER OBJECTIVES

After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to:

Analyze the problems of demobilization and conversion to peacetime production.

Account for Truman’s troubles with Congress and evaluate his accomplishments.

Explain the policy of containment and trace its development to 1950.

Describe Truman’s reelection in 1948.

Appraise the strength of McCarthyism in the United States.

Explain the origins of the Korean War and trace its major developments.