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A Local and National Story: The Civil Rights Movement in Postwar Washington, DC
The history of the Civil Rights Movement is the story of numerous grassroots campaigns loosely coordinated and assisted by a small number of national organizations. Every local...
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The Civil Rights Movement: Major Events and Legacies
From the earliest years of European settlement in North America, whites enslaved and oppressed black people. Although the Civil War finally brought about the abolition...
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Anti-Communism in the 1950s
In 1950, fewer than 50,000 Americans out of a total US population of 150 million were members of...
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The Korean War
The Korean War was three different conflicts from the perspective of the disparate groups who fought in it. For North and South Korea, the...
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt—Four-Term President—and the Election of 1944
When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt decided to seek a fourth term in 1944, his...
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Potsdam Declaration
Harry S. Truman, Winston Churchill, and Chiang Kai-shek issued the Potsdam Declaration to Japan: “We call upon the Government of Japan to proclaim now the unconditional surrender of all the Japanese armed forces, and to provide proper and adequate assurances of their good faith in such action. The alternative for Japan is prompt and utter destruction.”
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Taft-Hartley Act
Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act over President Truman’s veto. The act instituted a number of amendments to the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 designed to restrict organized labor. While the act limited labor unions’ negotiation tactics, it also reduced corrupt labor and political practices.
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V-E Day
Harry S. Truman, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin issued coordinated announcements of the Allied Powers’ victory in Europe. Major celebrations took place, though victory in the Pacific was yet to be achieved.
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Fair Deal
In his State of the Union address, President Harry S. Truman announced his “Fair Deal,” a series of proposed domestic reforms, including the expansion of many New Deal policies. Truman’s proposals included social security expansion, a minimum-wage increase, labor law changes, aid for education, and health insurance reform.