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Mind Map by Robert Hunt, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Robert Hunt
over 7 years ago
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Truman's Presidency (Timeline)
- 1945 (succeeds Roosevelt as
President)
- 1946
- 1947
- 1948 (Truman Re-elected)
- 1949
- 1950
- 1951
- 1952
- 1953 (leaves office in Jan)
- Truman seizes federal control of Steel to quash
a strike as workers and owners couldn't reach
agreement over pay
- This is found to be unconstitutional
- This is found to be unconstitutional
- First H-bomb detonated by the US
- Eisenhower (Republican) elected President, Nixon as his Vice-President
- 1953 (leaves office in Jan)
- Rosenburgs
arrested and
executed for
Espionage
- MacArthur relieved of
duty as US Comander of
troops in Korea
- 1952
- McCarthy makes the 'Wheeling Speech'
charging 205 members of the state
department with communist links
- Sino-Soviet Alliance signed
between Stalin and Mao
- North Korea invades
the South- Korean
war begins
- Truman send troops stationed in Japan to aid the South led by
General MacArthur
- Successful counter-attack by the US and allies in Inchon
- US encroach on Chinese border leading to Chinese counter attack pushing the US back
- US encroach on Chinese border leading to Chinese counter attack pushing the US back
- Successful counter-attack by the US and allies in Inchon
- Truman send troops stationed in Japan to aid the South led by
General MacArthur
- Social Security amendments increase
the spread and depth of benefits
- Republicans make significant gains in the
mid term elections
- 1951
- NATO formed
- Berlin Blockade lifted
- USSR detonates first A-bomb
- China falls to
Communism
under Chairman
Mao
- Minimum wage rises to 75 cents
- 1950
- Berlin Blockade starts- USSR blocks all land access to West
Berlin, for 10 months all supplies are flown into West
Berlin- at its peak over a thousand aid planes
landed in Berlin in one day.
- Truman orders the desegregation of
the Armed Forces
- Truman first candidate to campaign in Harlem
- Democrats retake Congress
- 1949
- Truman releases his
'Truman Doctrine'
- Jackie Robinson is
the first Black player
in Major League
Baseball for the
Brooklyn Dodgers
- Marshall Plan announced- US run
AID plan for post-war Europe
- Truman becomes the first President to
address the NAACP
- To Secure These Rights
released identifying race
discrimination in almost
every aspect of American
life
- 1948 (Truman Re-elected)
- Kennan's Long Telegram sent
- Employment Act lays the
responsibility of economic
stability of the country with
the federal government
- Republicans win
Congress in
Mid-term
elections
- 1947
- Drops A-bombs in Japan to end
war in the Pacific
- Potsdam Conference
- 1946
- Foreign Policy
- Domestic Policy
- Civil Rights
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