HST 510 UNITED STATES AFTER 1945

- LECTURE 3 - KEY TERMS -
 

Making the National Security State
 from Truman (1945 - 1952) to the Eisenhower Years (1953 - 1960)

 

Igor Gouzenko Affair

Operation ENORMOUS

Alien Registration Act of 1940 "Smith Act"

Executive Order 9835 "Loyalty Act"
March 21, 1947
Federal Employee Loyalty Program (FELP)

Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations (AGLOSO)
April 3, 1947

Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950 "McCarran Act"
(Internal Security Act) 

Subversive Activities Control Board (SACB)

Communist Organization or "Front"
"Communist-lead Labor Union"

Communist Control Act (1954)

"Communist Infiltrated Organization"

House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Standing Committee (1945-1975) 

Fifth Amendment

Contempt of Congress

Perjury

"Hollywood Ten"

Blacklist 

Second Red Scare

Spanish Civil War

Elizabeth Bentley

Alger Hiss

Whitaker Chambers

Alger Hiss Trials

The Pumpkin Papers

Richard Milhous Nixon 

First Lightning [Joe-1]
August 29, 1949

Chinese Civil War
Republic of China (ROC) 
People's Republic of China (PRC)
( Oct 1 1949)
Taiwan

H-Bomb Decision

Korean War
(25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953)

Presidential Proclamation 2914
"Proclaiming the Existence of a National Emergency"
December 16, 1950

American Communist Party

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg 

Roy Marcus Cohn 

Joseph "Joe" McCarthy

McCarthyism

"Witch Hunting"

The Lavender Scare

Army-McCarthy Hearings

National Lawyers Guild

"Have you no sense of decency?"

Edward Murrow
CBS News

Dwight D. Eisenhower 

John Foster Dulles

Sullivan & Cromwell 

Offshore Holding

"Globalization" 

IG Farben

ITT

The New Look Policy

Operation TP/AJAX (1953)

Operations PB/FORTUNE (1953) and PB/SUCCESS (1954)

Canadian Seamen's Union
Seafarer's International Union
Hal Banks 

International Nickel Company (INCO)
Sudbury, Ontario

Mine Mill Smelter Workers Union
United Steelworkers (USW)