USA Edexcel History Dates

The USA
The Red Scare

• 1945-1950 the take over of communism in Eastern Europe
• 1946 Churchill's iron curtain speech
• 1947- Truman Doctrine
• 1948- The Berlin Blockade
• 1948- Alger Hiss
• 1949- China becomes communist
• 1950- War in Korea
• 1950- McCarthy becomes popular
• 1950- The Rosenburgs
• 1951- Duck and Cover videos
• 1953- Eisenhower comes into Presidency
• 1954- McCarthyism ended
• 1954- Communism was banned

The Civil Rights Movement 1945-62

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