• National Security Act of 1947: reorganized Navy and War Department into Department of Defense; established the National Security Council, esatblished army, navy, and aiforce departments
• Martshall Plan: linked economic policy and containment policy, provide government funds to Western Europeanc countries, stabilized European economy, helped undermine communism
• Restore Germany: US, Britain, France reform their 3 sectors into a German Republic, SU alarmed by a revitalized Germany
• Unhappy SU: cuts off transportation between West Berlin and East Berlin, Berlin Airlift: 250000 flights into Berlin carrying supplies, SU later abandons the blockade, SU creates German Democratic Republic
• Election of 1948: Strom Thurmond abandons Democratics Party and runs in teh State's Rights or Dixiecrats Party, Truman shows interest in Civil Rights
• Cold War events (1948-1950): North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), US, Canada, and 10 other Western European countries join, attack on one and attack on the others, call for economic, political, and military cooperation (mainly militaristic)