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| The Taft-Hartley Act severely restricted the activities and power of labor unions in the United States. |
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| The term has also been used to refer to conservative white Southerners who remain within the Democratic Party, and those who were formerly Democrats but now identify as Republicans. |
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| In United States history, the Fair Deal was the policy of social improvement of U.S. President Harry S. Truman, outlined in his 1949 State of the Union Address to Congress on January 5, 1949. |
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| McCarthy and his staff gained notoriety for making freewheeling accusations of membership in the communist party or of communist sympathies. These accusations were directed towards people in the U.S. government. |
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| The Korean War, from June 25, 1950 to cease-fire on July 27, 1953 was a conflict between North Korea and South Korea. Some consider this a conflict between the United States and its allies, and the Communist powers of the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union. |
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| Dwight Eisenhower was an American soldier and politician. He served as the 34th President of the United States as well as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II, with the rank of General of the Army. |
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| Dwight Eisenhower was an American soldier and politician. He served as the 34th President of the United States as well as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II, with the rank of General of the Army. |
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| In 1948, he was accused of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union. After two trial he was convicted of purgery in 1950. |
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| The time period where the US was the only nation to have nuclear weapons. (1945-1949) area. |
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