This time period saw paranoia about Communism spread across the US
• Great Migration
Second Red Scare
• Marshall Plan
• Baby Boom
• Cold War
• McCarthyism
• HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)
• Korean War
• Soviet Union's acquisition of nuclear weapons
• Iron Curtain
• Nikita Khrushchev
• Establishment of NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• Cuban Revolution
• Rosenberg Trial
• Duck and Cover campaign
• Loyalty oaths
• Hollywood blacklist
• Red Channels publication
• Executive Order 9835
• Alger Hiss case
• Army-McCarthy hearings
• Operation PBSUCCESS
• Operation Ajax
• Hungarian Revolution
• Suez Crisis
• U-2 incident
• Berlin Wall construction
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• JFK assassination.