Truman's loyalty order
1947 · Event
Executive Order 9835 begins loyalty screening of all federal employees for communist sympathies, a forerunner of McCarthyism.
On these timelines: Cold War, USA, Master
More from Cold War
- Solidarity movement in Poland (1980)
- Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan (1989)
- Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968)
- Helsinki Accords (1975)
- Henry Kissinger (1923)
- Truman Doctrine (1947)
- Long Telegram (1946)
- Iron Curtain speech (1946)
Around 1947
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)