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May 20, 1948. Fearing domestic subversion, Congress debated an internal security bill requiring communists to register.
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January 31, 1941. Congress struggled to support wartime industry without sacrificing the rights and needs of laborers.
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6/45 The sacrifice of lives at Normandy and the millions of lives lost throughout the war argued for an internationalist U.S. foreign policy in the postwar era.
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May 14, 1963. Nonviolent civil rights protests in Birmingham, Alabama, met with mass arrests, excessive use of force, and bombings.
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While the FBI’s “most wanted list” encouraged the public to keep an eye out for criminals, Berryman zeroed in on a new kind of enemy: anyone who undermines war
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Republican opponents of FDR were eager to investigate whether any mistakes on the part of his military leaders had contributed to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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August 17, 1945. In the wake of World War II, Americans were eager to return to peacetime living and hungered for consumer goods.
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5/7/1942. After Pearl Harbor and several more Japanese victories, the U.S. military was eager for a win, and racist representations of the enemy became common.
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November 26, 1940. Although the U.S. had previously demanded cash for war supplies, by 1940 the U.K had no cash left to pay the U.S. and asked for credit.
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1957 NATO (The North Atlantic Treaty Organization) relied on the threat of all-out nuclear retaliation to hold off a communist attack on Europe.
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The U.S. vowed to defend its naval base at Guantanamo, Cuba, amid fear of an impending attack by Fidel Castro’s communist forces. 1960
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July 7, 1942. Five years after attacking China in 1936, Japan remained unable to complete the conquest.
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As Cold War rivals, the U.S & U.S.S.R. jockeyed for global influence by supplying arms to competing countries in various regions.
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April 29, 1942. Americans faced both higher taxes and a higher cost of living during the war.
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November 17, 1940. Germany destroyed British cities by using long-range bombers against civilian populations.
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As America wrestled with the threat of communist aggression, a record number of voters elected wartime commander Dwight D. Eisenhower to the presidency.
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March 12, 1942. The public’s sacrifices during World War II included military service, paying taxes, and going without consumer goods.
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This cartoon mocks a report by President John F. Kennedy’s Commission on the Status of Women describing the inequities faced by women and advocating for reforms
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January 12, 1942. Russia’s cold climate and fierce military resistance ultimately stopped Germany’s invasion, dealing a setback to the Axis Powers.
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10/1963 Led by the U.S. — which recognized only non-communist Taiwan as China — the United Nations repeatedly rejected mainland China’s bid for membership.
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9/21/1957. In an effort to contain the dangerous radioactive fallout released during nuclear testing, the U.S. began testing atomic weapons underground.
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May 4, 1941. To provide war materials to the Allied Powers, the U.S. government increased its spending, which made new and higher taxes necessary.
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November 15, 1940. In 1940, only the expanse of oceans separated the Americas from attack by Nazi Germany and its allies.
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November 21, 1945. Amid a host of challenges at the end of the war, President Harry Truman proposed a national health insurance program.
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February 9, 1945. The U.S., U.S.S.R., & U.K. redrew the world map at the Yalta Conference.
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In 1946 Congress reorganized its committee structure, and in the next election the voters “reorganized” the membership of Congress, ending the Democratic Party
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June 7, 1944. The landing by Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France opened a direct assault against Germany.
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1/1/41 Eleven months before the Pearl Harbor attack, European events forewarned America of the coming war.
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March 16, 1941. Congress responded to Britain’s peril by appropriating record amounts to fund the lend-lease program.
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According to the polls, President Harry S. Truman was highly unpopular just before his surprising victory over Thomas E. Dewey in the 1948 election.
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British opposition to the war.
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1/28/1943. At a conference in Morocco, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill pledged to fight until Germany surrender
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Civil rights legislation dodged one Senate peril when it was maneuvered past the Judiciary Committee, but it still faced a certain filibuster on the Senate flo