ontrol Board. All Communist individuals and organisations had to be registered, and no current of former member of s Communist of Fascist organisation could enter the USA. The Board was abolished in 1973.
15/9/1950. UN forces landed behind enemy lines at Inchon, North Korea. The South Korean capital, Seoul, was retaken by the end of September 1950.
12/9/1950, Louis A Johnson resigned as US Secretary of Defence. He was succeeded by George Marshall.
1/9/1950. North Korean forces crossed the Naktong River.
26/7/1950, Britain decided to send troops to Korea.
19/7/1950. President Truman asked the US Congress for a big rise in military spending.
8/7/1950, US General MacArthur took over UN forces in Korea.
2/7/1950, American troops landed in South Korea.
29/6/1950, South Korean forces retook Seoul.
28/6/1950, British Royal navy ships joined the US forces in South Korea.
27/6/1950. North Korean forces took Seoul. British forces joined the war in Korea.
26/6/1950, US President Truman sent US forces to support South Korea.
25/6/1950. Start of the Korean War. North Korea invaded the South, crossing the 38th parallel, which was the border.
9/2/1950. In the USA, Joseph McCarthy launched an anti-Communist crusade. He claimed he knew the names of 250 Communists employed within the State Department. See 25/2/1954.
31/1/1950. President Truman told US scientists to make an H-Bomb.
22/1/1950, In the USA, Alger Hiss, former advisor to President Franklin Roosevelt, was convicted of perjury for denying contacts to Soviet agents. Hiss had liaised with Chambers, editor of Time Magazine and a Communist agent. A previous trial of Hiss ended in a hung jury; this day he received 5 years in prison. Senator McCarthy used this case to allege that the US State Department was riddled with Communist agents.
17/9/1949, The first meeting of NATO was held.
24/8/1949, The North Atlantic Treaty, NATO, came into force.
9/5/1949. Billy Joel, American singer and songwriter, was born in the Bronx, New York.
4/4/1949. The North Atlantic Treaty was signed in Washington. NATO was set up on 18/3/1949, by Britain and seven other European countries. Denmark had agreed to join on 25/3/1949. Eleven countries signed in total.
9/2/1949, US actor Robert Mitchum was jailed for 2 months for smoking marijuana.
7/1/1949, Marshall was succeeded by Acheson as US Secretary of State.
16/11/1948, US President Truman refused to participate in talks with the Soviets on the future of Berlin until the blockade was lifted.
15/10/1948, US President Gerald Ford married widow Elizabeth Bloomer Warren.
2/9/1948, Christa McAuliffe, US teacher who died in the Challenger space shuttle disaster in 1986, was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
2/8/1948, Alger Hiss testified in the US McCarthy anti-Communist hearings, using the phrase ‘Reds under the bed’.
15/7/1948. John Pershing, commander of the US Army in France in World War One, nicknamed ‘Black Jack’, died in Washington DC.
30/4/1948, The Organisation of American States was set up. The agreement, covering all 21 of the republics in the Americas, was signed at Bogota, Colombia. The fourteenth state ratified the treaty on 13/12/1951, thereby formally legally validating the treaty.
19/4/1948, The USA tested a plutonium bomb at Eniwetok Atoll.
31/3/1948. (1) US Congress passed the Marshall Aid Bill.. On 3/4/1948 President Truman signed the Economic Assistance Act, putting in effect Marshall aid for 16 countries in war-torn Europe. The first aid shipments to Europe left the USA on 5/4/1948.
(2) Al Gore, US Vice President under Bill Clinton, noted for his strong pro-environmental stance, was born.
15/3/1948. US coal miners went on strike for better pensions.
1947, In the US, the Department of Defense was established by the National Security Act of 1947. The Department of war and the Department of tte Navy, which had both existed since 1789, were merged. Until 1949 the new agency was known as the National Military Establishment,
5/10/1947. In the US, President Truman urged Americans to give up meat on Tuesdays and poultry and eggs on Thursday to aid Eur