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Defining Documents in American History: Postwar 1940s (1945–1950)

Table of Contents

Publisher's Note




Editor's Introduction




Contributors




War Crimes and Tribunals




Executive Order 9547




Nuremberg Code




Establishment and Proceedings of the Tribunal




Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide




The New World Order




Preamble of the UN Charter




Potsdam Agreement




Statement by General MacArthur on the Occupation of Japan




No Sacrificing of Basic Principles for Expediency




Complete Integration of Military Operations




The World Needs the Tonic of Universal Truth




No Country Fears a Strong America




“The Sources of Soviet Conduct”




Truman Statement on Immigration into Palestine




Truman Doctrine Speech




Speech on the Marshall Plan




Vyshinsky's Speech to the UN General Assembly




NATO Treaty




Memorandum on Lifting the Soviet Blockade




American Alliances




Act of Chapultepec




Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance




Pact of Bogota




Address by Secretary Acheson, September 19, 1949




Atomic Policy




Atomic Energy and International Trade




Atomic Explosion in the USSR




International Control of Atomic Energy




The Red Scare




Executive Order 9835




Testimony of J. Edgar Hoover before the House Un-American Activities Committee




Ronald Reagan's Testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee




Testimony Regarding Communist Investigations




Domestic Affairs




A Reason Must Be Substituted for Force




Twenty-Second Amendment




Taft-Hartley Act




Practical Peacetime Applications




Truman's State of the Union Speech




The Rise of Civil Rights




Mendez et al. v. Westminister School District of Orange County et al.




Morgan v. Virginia (1946)




Report of the President's Committee on Civil Rights




Shelley v. Kraemer (1948)




Executive Order 9981




Southern Legislators Protest Proposed Anti-lynching Legislation




Appendixes



Chronological List


Web Resources


Bibliography