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cold war politics
1950—1959

 

 
 

 
 
McCarthy details ’81 loyalty risks’ Feb 20

1950

 

Feb 9 Sen. McCarthy begins anti-Comunist accusations
1950 Internal Security Act enacted over Truman’s veto
 
 
Bricker on campaign for amendment allowing Congressional treaty regulation 1951
Senator Taft announces intentions to run for President September
1951

 

July 14 McCarthy accuses Gen. Marshall of ‘whimpering appeasement’
1951 Johnson becomes Democratic deputy floor leader
 
Presidential Elections

Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)
Adlai E. Stevenson (Democratic)
 
1952

 

Popular Vote

55.1
44.4
 

Electoral Vote

442
89
 

July 2 Republican convention at Chicago
 
 
Taft dies; Knowland becomes majority leader July 31
1953

 

1953 Bricker obtains sixty-two Senate cosponsors

 
 
televised hearings of McCarthy trials air April-June
Senate censures McCarthy Decmbr 2
1954

 

February Johnson substitute for Bricker amendment fails by one vote
March 1 Puerto Rican Nationalists open fire on the House of Representatives
1954 Averell Harriman elected governor of New York
 
 
House resolution to aid Formosa 1955
1955

 

1955 Howard Smith becomes the House Rules Committee chair
July President goes to Big Four summit, popularity booms
 
Presidential Elections

Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)
Adlai E. Stevenson (Democratic)
 

 
Democratic convention held in Chicago August 13
1956

 

Popular Vote

57.6
42.1
 

Electoral Vote

457
73
 

1956 Senate kills Eisenhower’s Dixon-Yates contract
Aug 20-23 Republican national convention at San Fransisco’s Cow Palace
 
 
Eisenhower uses troops to enforce segregation by Governor Faubus 1957
1957

 

1957 passage of civil rights act forwarded by Johnson
1957 Kennedy writes Profiles in Courage
 
1958

 

1958 Democrats gain majority in House of Representatives
 
1959

 

mid 1959 Senate rejects Lewis Strauss as Secretary of Commerce
 
 
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