US domestic policy and affairs: 1949-1952
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- American domestic policy and affairs 1949-1952
- 1950
- 25th January: Judge Goddard sentences Alger Hiss on each of two counts of perjury
- 9th February: McCarthy accuses more than 200 members of the State Dept. of being communists
- 1st March: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of supplying info. from the Manhattan Project to the USSR
- 22nd September: the McCarran Internal Security Act becomes law
- 21st December: the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee is approved
- 1949
- 3rd January: Senate majority becomes Democratic
- 5th January: Truman proposes the 'New Deal' in his SotU address
- 20th January: Truman is inaugurated
- 1951
- 3rd January: Senate majority is returned Democratic
- 29th March: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of espionage
- 5th April: the Rosenbergs are sentenced to death by Judge Irving Kaufman
- 1952
- 3rd April: the Marshall Plan expires
- 9th April: the planned day for a steelworker strike, but Truman nationalises the American steel industry hours before
- 2nd June: the SC rules that Truman lacks the authority to nationalise the American steel industry. The steelworkers proceed to strike for 53 days
- 24th July: the steelworkers’ strike is ended on essentially the same terms the union had proposed four months earlier
- 4th November: Eisenhower wins the presidential election against Stevenson; the Senate majority becomes Republican
- 1950
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