Major Events of Presidency:
- Potsdam Conference
- United Nations founded
- Allies capture Berlin
- Germany surrenders
- Americans capture Okinawa
- Atomic bomb tested in New Mexico
- United States drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Japan surrenders
- Atomic Energy Commission established
- Postwar inflation
- Coal/railroad strikes
- Republicans win control of Congress
- Baby and Child Care published by Dr. Benjamin Spock
- Truman Doctrine announced
- Marshall Plan proposed
- National Security Act passed
- Taft-Hartley Act passed
- HUAC begins investigations of Hollywood
- Federal employee loyalty program launched
- Jackie Robinson becomes first African-American to play in the Major Leagues
- Communists stage coup in Czechoslovakia
- Economic Cooperation Administration established
- Selective Service System restored
- Berlin Airlift begins
- Hiss case begins
- U.N. votes to partition Palestine and create state of Israel
- The Lonely Crowd/The Catcher in the Rye published
- NATO established
- Soviet Union detonates first atomic bomb
- Communists seize power in China
- NSC-68 outlines new U.S. policy toward communism
- Korean War begins
- McCarran Act passed
- Fuchs-Rosenburg case begins
- Joseph McCarthy begins campaign against communists in government, prompting a "Red Scare"
- Negotiations begin in Korea
- American occupation of Japan ends
- Steelworker strike