5/6/1952, In the US the Immigration Bill was passed, despite Resident Truman’s veto and a Democrat majority of ten in the Senate. This Bill established immigration quotas by nationalist, something Truman considered racist.
2/6/1952, In Youngstown vs Sawyer, the US Supreme Court ruled that President Truman had gone beyond his powers in ordering the State seizure of the steel industry during a strike.
8/4/1952, In the USA, President Truman ordered the State seizure of the steel industry in response to a strike. The output of the steel mills was considered vital for the US forces fighting in Korea. The strike ended in 2/5/1952, but the seizure continued until after the Supreme Court decision of 2/6/1952..
29/3/1952, In the USA, President Truman announced he would not be standing for the elections that year.
27/2/1952, The United Nations Building in New York saw its first session.
1/11/1951, The US tested an atom bomb over the Nevada desert.
5/10/1951, The US House of representatives approved the US$ 56.9 billion Armed Forces appropriation Bill.
8/9/1951, The San Francisco Treaty of Friendship between the US and Japan was signed.
10/7/1951, Ceasefire talks between North and South Korea began.
9/7/1951, Dashiell Hammett, author of The Maltese Falcon, was jailed for 6 months for contempt of court after refusing to give testimony that would have helped trace Communists accused of conspiring against the US.
15/6/1951, The Korean front line between Northern and Southern forces was stabilised at around the 38th parallel, where it had been originally. See 10/7/1951.
11/4/1951. General MacArthur was relieved of his command by President Truman, after disagreeing over the conduct of the Korean War. MacArthur wanted to carry the war over into Communist China, and bomb Chinese bases in Manchuria. MacArthur returned to a heroes welcome in Washington, but did not realise his hopes of nomination for the US Presidential elections.
2/4/1951, NATO Allied Command Europe came into being.
30/3/1951. In the USA, the Rosenbergs (Julius and Ethel), were sentenced to death, having been found guilty of passing atomic secrets to the Russians on 29/3/1951.. They were executed on 19/6/1953.
14/3/1951. US troops recaptured Seoul.
25/1/1951, UN forces halted the advance of the North Koreans and counterattacked.
1/1/1951, Chinese and North Korean forces advanced through UN lines and captured Seoul.
1950, The Defense Production Act was passed, allowing public corporations to borrow from the US Treasury if national security was at stake.
28/12/1950. Chinese forces in Korea crossed the 38th parallel.
13/12/1950. Marshall Aid to Britain stopped.
28/11/1950. China entered the Korean War; 200,000 troops entered Korea across the Yalu River. UN troops were forced back south again. On 28/12/1950 Chinese forces crossed the 38th parallel. The West had ignored Chinese threats to intervene if US forces crossed north of the 38th parallel.
24/11/1950, South Korean forces began an offensive in the Yalu Valley; China planned intervention to support the North,
7/11/1950, In US elections, the Republicans gained 30 seats in the House of Representatives.
1/11/1950, Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempted to assassinate President Harry S Truman. Torresola was killed during the attack, but Collazo was captured. Collazo served 29 years in a federal prison, being released in 1979. Don Pedro Albizu Campos also served many years in a federal prison in Atlanta, for seditious conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. government in Puerto Rico
19/10/1950. US and South Korean forces captured Pyongyang, during the Korean War.
9/10/1950. US forces, having reached the 38th parallel, the old intra-Korean border, at the end of September, now crossed into North Korea. Warnings from the Indian Prime Minister, Nehru, that this might provoke Chinese intervention were ignored (see 28/11/1950).
1/10/1950, South Korean forces recrossed the 38th parallel.
26/9/1950. US forces recaptured Seoul.
23/9/1950, The US passed the McCarran Act, which set up the Subversive Activities C