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The Cold War: Domestic Challenges
- Harry Truman experienced numerous challenges as president, with the most notable being the transition to a postwar economy (He maintained price controls to prevent price inflation after the war
- The Serviceman's Readjustment Act (1944) - provided financial assistance and loan to returning soldiers who sought to buy homes or attend college
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The Cold War: Domestic Challenges
- Republicans challenged the power of organized labor by passing the Taft-Hartley Act (1947), which required unions to take noncommunist oaths and reduced their political contributions
- The establishment of new departments and agencies, such as the Department of Defense and Central Intelligence Agency, reflected the context of the Cold War
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The 1948 Election and Truman's Fair Deal
- Truman defeate Republican Thomas Dewey in 1948 Presidential Election, despite political divisions in the Democratic Party
- The Fair Deal: His domestic program promoted Civil Rights for African Americans and national healthcare, but conservative Democrats and Republicans largely resisted it
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The Cold War: Global Challenges
- The United States, representing free market democratic countries, opposed the expansion of the Soviet Union and its Communist agenda in Eastern Europe and around the globe
- Although Josef Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, pledged not to install Communist governments at the Yalta Conference (February 1945), the Red Army invaded Eastern Europe
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The Cold War: Global Challenges
- The Potsdam Conference in Germany (July 1945) divided Nazi Germany into four occupation zones, installed a democratic government in Germany and conducted war time trials against Nazi officials
- The Eastern occupation zone came under Soviet control, and soon became a Soviet puppet regime, with the assistance of the Red Army
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The Cold War: Global Challenges
- Winston Churchill in 1946 remarked that an "iron curtain had descended across Europe" as the Soviet Union installed Communist governments
- The United Nations was formed in 1945 to prevent another major war
- It includes a Security Council and a General Assembly, addressing global issue
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Containment
- George Kennan proposed the policy of containment to prevent Communism from spreading to other parts of the global community, providing American aid to specific countries
- Examples included the Truman Doctrine, which provided aid to Greece and Turkey, and the Marshall Plan, which aided Western Europe
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The Berlin Airlift
- The Soviets established a blockade into West Berlin to eliminate the democratic enclave in the Soviet Zone (1948
- Truman provided food and supplies to West Berliners from American airplanes to counter the Soviet
- The Soviets ended the blockade in May 1949, forming the German Democratic Republic
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The Formation of NATO
- To promote the common interests of the United States and its Western Allies, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed in April 1949
- Operating on the basis of collective security, if one of the NATO membe countries was attacked, the others would militarily support it
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