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1940-62:
National Defense Budgets, 1940-1964 - chart |
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1940-60:
American Birthrate, 1940-1960 - chart |
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1940-90:
Budget Deficits, 1940-1990 - chart |
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1940-95:
US military
(national defense) outlays, 1940-95 |
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1945-90:
Defense Expenditures, Armed Forces Strength - chart |
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1945:
"Old
Man Atom (The Atomic Talking Blues)" - song lyrics by Vern Partlow |
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1945:
Executive
Order 9547 Providing for Representation of the United States in
Preparing and Prosecuting Charges of Atrocities and War Crimes Against
the Leaders of the European Axis Powers and Their Principal Agents and
Accessories - Harry S. Truman |
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1945:
"How Not to Raise Children" - Harriet Eager Davies in Parents
Magazine (Aug.) |
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1945:
Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Vol. 1 - Charter of the
International
Military
Tribunal |
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1945:
Proclamation of the United Nations Charter and Statute of the
International Court of Justice - Harry S. Truman |
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1945:
TIME
Magazine's 'Man of the Year' for 1945 - "Harry
S. Truman: The Bomb & The Man" (12/31 issue) |
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1945:
Truman's Proclamation of May 8 - end of war in Europe |
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1946:
Administrative Procedures Act |
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1946:
The Atomic Energy Act or The McMahon Bill (12/20) |
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1946:
Charter of the
International Military Tribunal for the Far East |
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1946:
Dean Acheson's Account of the Crisis Over Iran |
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1946:
"Hero of the Wrong War" - song lyrics |
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1946:
Immigration into Palestine - Statement by President Truman |
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1946:
"Iron Curtain" Speech - Sir Winston Churchill |
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1946:
Kennan Telegram |
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1946:
Marsh v Alabama -- issue
of free speech |
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1946:
Novikov Telegram |
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1946:
The Unfinished Work -
Kenneth MacFarland |
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1946:
U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, "The Effects of the
Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki," (6/9) |
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1946:
“Word Has Just Been Received” - Truman Speaks on the
Railroad Strike |
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1947:
“A Damaging Impression of Hollywood Has Spread” - Movie
“Czar” Eric Johnston Testifies before HUAC |
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1947:
Executive Order 9835 (3/21) |
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1947:
"The Evaluation of the Atomic Bomb as a Military Weapon" - the Final
Report of the Joints Chiefs of Staff Evaluation Board for Operation
Crossroads (6/30) |
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1947:
Everson v. Board of Education -- issue of the Establishment
Clause |
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1947:
"The
Grand Inquisition" -
I.F.
Stone on HUAC's investigations into the movie industry in The
Nation (11/8) |
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1947:
Headquarters of the United Nations Agreement |
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1947:
John L. Lewis, Head of the United Mine Workers, defends coal miners
before Congress (4/3) |
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1947:
Maiden House Speech by Congressman Richard Nixon |
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1947:
Marshall's Commencement address at Harvard (6/5) |
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1947:
National Security Act of 1947 |
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1947:
Rio De
Janeiro Conference for the Maintenance of Continental Peace and
Security (August 15-September 2) |
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1947:
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Vyshinsky outlined his
government's interpretation of the Marshall Plan |
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1947:
Statement of The Central Committee of The Chinese
Communist Party (2/1) |
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1947:
"The Strike Against Jackie [Robinson] Spiked" - Baltimore
African-American
(May 17) - Sam Lacy |
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1947:
Taft-Hartley Act |
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1947:
Testimony Before the House Un-American Activities Committee -
Ronald Reagan |
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1947:
Testimony of Actor, Gary Cooper before HUAC (10/23) |
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1947:
Testimony of Actor (and President of the Screen Actor's Guild), Ronald
Reagan before HUAC (10/23) |
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1947:
Testimony of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover before HUAC - excerpts
(3/26) |
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1947:
Testimony of Walter E. Disney before HUAC (10/24) |
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1947:
Testimony of Writer, Ayn Rand before HUAC (10/20) |
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1947:
“They Want to Muzzle Public Opinion” - John Howard
Lawson’s Warning to the American Public |
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1947:
Traveling with the Dodgers |
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1947:
Truman's Address to the NAACP |
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1947:
Truman Doctrine |
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1947:
Truman's Loyalty Oath |
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1947:
U. N.
Resolution to Partition Palestine |
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1947:
United
States Position on Palestine Question - Statement by Herschel V.
Johnson, United States Deputy Representative to the U. N., Oct. 11 |
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1947:
The "X" Article in the July edition of Foreign Affairs Magazine
- George Kennan |
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1948:
Bogota
Conference of American States, Charter of the Organization of
American States |
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1948:
Brooklyn Dodger Infielder Jackie Robinson (photo) |
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1948:
"The Campaign Begins in Earnest" -
political cartoon by Walt Kelly in the New York Star
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1948:
Cartoons (18) of
the 1948 Presidential Campaign and 4 Photos (from the Truman Library) |
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1948:
Cartoons (12) on
the Berlin Airlift from the Truman Library |
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1948:
"Desegregation of the Armed Forces" files of documents from the Truman
Library for the year 1948 |
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1948:
Displaced
Persons Act |
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1948:
Executive Order 9981 : Establishing the President's Committee on
Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed
Services - Harry
Truman |
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1948:
"Final
Survey of Nation Gives Dewey a Commanding Lead" - The New York
Times (10/31) |
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1948:
"Hiss and Chambers: Strange Story of Two Men" - article by
Robert G. Whalen in the NY Times (12/12) |
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1948:
HUAC, Communism, and Hollywood (video file) |
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1948:
Hubert Humphrey, Minneapolis Mayor, argues for strong civil-rights
platform at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, PA
(7/14) |
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1948:
I Was a Negro in the South for 30 Days - Ray
Springle |
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1948:
Levittown (layout plans) |
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1948:
Presidential Civil Rights Message (2/2) |
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1948:
President Truman blasts a "know-nothing, do-nothing Congress" -
Elizabeth, NJ (10/7) |
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1948:
President Truman's Acceptance Speech at the 1948 Democratic Convention
(7/15) |
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1948:
Progressive Party Platform |
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1948:
The Promise of Human
Rights - Eleanor Roosevelt (April) |
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1948:
Recognition of the State of Israel by the United States - press
release |
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1948:
The Six Thousand Houses That Levitt Built - Harper's Magazine |
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1948:
Southern Response to Truman's Civil Rights Speech of
2/2 |
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1948:
"Southerners Name Thurmond to Lead Anti-Truman Fight" - The New York
Times (7/18) |
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1948:
TIME
Magazine's 'Man of the Year' for 1947 - "George C. Marshall: The
Year of Decision" (1/5 issue) |
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1948:
"Truman
Wins with 304 Electoral Votes; Democrats Control Senate and House;
Europe Sees Foreign Policy Continuing" - The New York Times
front page the day after the 1948 Presidential election |
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1948:
Universal
Declaration of Human Rights (U. N.) |
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1948:
U. S.
Position on the Palestine Problem - Statement by Ambassador Warren R.
Austin, U. S. Representative in the UN Security Council, (3/19) |
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1948-49:
CIA Weekly Summaries on the Berlin Blockade |
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1948-1950s:
Declassified FBI files on
their investigation of "The Daily Worker", a communist publication |
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1949:
“The A-Bomb Won’t Do
What You Think!” - William H. Hessler in Collier’s
(9/17) |
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1949:
“Among the Most Exploited” - Fair Labor Standards Act
and Laundry Workers |
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1949:
“And These Are the
Children of God” - Collier’s (8/6) |
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1949:
“Belles of the Ball Game” - Women’s Professional
Baseball League Thrives in the 1940s |
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1949:
“Communists are second to none in our devotion to our
people and to our country” - Prosecution and Defense Statements, 1949
Trial of American Communist Party Leaders |
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1949:
"Communists Should Not Teach in American Colleges" - Raymond B. Allen
in Educational Forum (May issue) |
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1949:
Dean Acheson on the United States Position on China,
August |
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1949:
Dean Acheson's Speech on the Proposed North Atlantic
Treaty (3/18) |
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1949:
“Democracy Can’t Live in These Houses” - Senator Paul
Douglas Advocates a Federal Housing Program to Clear Slum Areas |
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1949:
“Efficient Farms Need Not Pay Starvation Wages” - The
Fair Labor Standards Act and Migratory Agricultural Workers |
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1949:
“Get on the Ground and We Will Kick Your Head In” - A
Reporter Tells of Terrorism in Alabama |
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1949:
Inaugural Address of Harry S. Truman |
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1949:
Making Human Rights
Come Alive - Eleanor Roosevelt |
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1949:
N. A. T. O.
Treaty |
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1949:
Opening Statement on Behalf of the Communist Party, by
Eugene Dennis (3/21) in Denis et. al. v.
United States |
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1949:
“The Rights of All Must Be Secured or the Rights of
None Will Be Secure” - Arguments for Federal Civil Rights Legislation |
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1949:
Soviet Development of the Atomic Bomb |
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1949:
TIME
Magazine's 'Man of the Year' for 1948 - "Harry
S. Truman: Fighter in a Fighting Year" (1/3 issue)
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1949:
"Waging Peace in the Americas" - Address by
Secretary Acheson (9/19) |
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1949:
“We Can Control Our Affairs Pretty Well” - Southern
Senators Protest Proposed Anti-Lynching Legislation |
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early 1950s?:
"A
Hero of the Wrong War" - song lyrics sung by vets of the Spanish Civil
War seen as "Commies" by Sen. McCarthy |
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1950:
National Security Council Memorandum Number 68 |
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1950:
President Harry S. Truman, announcing his order to send U.S. air and
naval forces to help defend South Korea and explaining the rationale
for his decision (6/27) |
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1950:
Report prepared by Eben Ayers, White House Assistant on the Decision
to Drop the A-Bomb in 1945 |
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1950:
Senator Joseph McCarthy's
Speech about Communists in the U. S. State Department |
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1950:
Speech of Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME) |
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1950:
Truman and General MacArthur shake hands during their conference at
Wake Island (10/15) - photo |
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1950:
Truman Calls for Development of the Hydrogen Bomb |
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1951:
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (photo) |
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1951:
Security Treaty Between the U. S. and Japan |
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1951:
"Undercover in the Communist Party" - Murrey Marder
Washington Post (7/12) |
