McCarthyism & Red Scare Facts

Harry Truman served only 82 days as vice president before Franklin Delano Roosevelt's unexpected death elevated him to the presidency. Harry Truman was the last American president to have no educat...

"We want to see the time come when we can do the things in peace that we have been able to do in war. If we can put this tremendous machine of ours... to work for peace, we can look forward to the...

Population of the United States in 1940: 132 million Population of the United States in 1950: 151 million Population of the United States in 1960: 179 million Percentage of American workers who wer...

American Federation of Labor Central Intelligence Agency Congress of Industrial Organizations Communist Party USA House Un-American Activities Committee International Longshoremen's & Warehou...

Truman Doctrine The Truman Doctrine, announced in 1947, held that any advance of Communism, anywhere in the world, was a threat to the national interests of the United States. An American foreign p...