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America in the Postwar Period 1946 Iron Curtain Descends On Europe 1946 Baruch Plan For Atomic Controls Announced 1947 Truman Doctrine 1947 Marshall Plan Unveiled 1947 Taft-Hartley Act 1947 Yeager Breaks The Sound Barrier 1947 Ten Are Blacklisted In Hollywood 1948 United States Recognizes The State Of Israel 1948 Berlin Airlift 1949 Soviets Detonate Atomic Bomb 1950 Korean War Begins 1950 Truman Announces National Emergency 1951 22nd Amendment Limits Presidency To Two Terms 1951 US Detonates Hydrogen Bomb 1951 UNIVAC, The First Electronic Computer 1952 High Court Rules Truman Seizure of Steel Illegal 1952 New Immigration Quotas Go Into Effect 1953 Rosenbergs Executed For Selling A-Bomb Secrets 1953 Korean War Ends 1954 Nautilus Submarine Launch 1954 McCarthy's Army Hearings1954 McCarthy's Army Hearings 1954 Gunfire on Capital Hill 1954 SEATO Formed 1954 Segregation Found Illegal 1955 First McDonald's Restaurant Opens 1955 Geneva Summit Held 1957 USSR & US Launch ICBMs 1958 Marines Go To Lebanon 1958 Explorer I Launched 1958 707 Service Begun 1959 Alaska Admitted To Union 1959 Kitchen Debate 1959 Hawaii Admitted To Union 1959 St. Lawrence Seaway Opened 1960 U-2 Downed, Summit Fails

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