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-Selective Service (peace time draft)
-Smith Act (fingerprinting of aliens) |
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-Pearl Harbor (directly contributes to US entering WW2)
-Lend Lease (lend materials for war)
-US enters WW2, Japanese relocation camps |
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-Congress of Racial Equality (prevent segregation and discrimination)
-Revenue Act of 1942 (increase tax revenues for WW2) |
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-Office of Price Administration(seals prices, ration food)
-Detroit race riots (govt. does nothing)
-Casablanca Conference (FDR and Churchill meet to discuss strategy against Germany)
-Cairo Conference (conference of allied leaders to seek Japan's unconditional surrender)
-Tehran Conference (FDR, Stalin, Churchill to discuss strategy vs Germany) |
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-GI Bill (benefits for veterans, $ for education, creates middle class)
-D-Day (July 6, invasion for liberation of france on the beaches of Normandy) |
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-Yalta Conference (allies meet to decide on final war plans)
-US joins the United Nations
-Germany and Japan Surrender (ends WW2)
-Roosevelt dies, Truman president
-Potsdam Conference (Truman, Churchill, Stalin meet in Germany to set up zones) |
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-Kennan containment (prevent spread of communism)
-Employment Act (goal to have full employment)
-Atomic Energy Act (develop better bombs)
-President's commission on Civil Rights (advocate rights) |
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-The Marshall Plan (economic aid to Europe after WW2)
-Taft-Hartley Act (80 day cooling period not to strike, labor leaders must sign non-communist oath)
-Truman Doctrine (financial commitment to nations fighting communism)
-Federal Employee Loyalty Program (anti-communistic oaths)
-National Security Act (creates CIA) |
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-Truman desegregates armed forces
-Berlin Blockade (Berlin airlift)
-Nuremberg trials (convict war criminals in Germany) |
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-NATO formed
-Fair Deal (most don't pass, housing act for construction, minimum wage increase) |
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