Decade of record

1940s

The 1940s contain 77 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.

77 events From Jan 1, 1940 To Dec 8, 1949 Open in filter view →
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DateEventLanesStatus
1949-12-08China Lobby Intensifies Campaign After Nationalist Retreat to Taiwan - Alfred Kohlberg Funds Propaganda 3 srcconfirmed
1949-11-15CIO Expels United Electrical Workers and Farm Equipment Workers, Beginning Purge of Communist-Led Unions 3 src
Congress of Industrial Organizations · Philip Murray · Walter Reuther · House Un-American Activities Committee
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1949-08-10Louis Johnson Exonerated in B-36 Scandal Despite Convair Board Service and Contract Awards 3 src
Louis Johnson · House Armed Services Committee · U.S. Air Force
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1949-07-15Housing Act of 1949 Creates Urban Renewal Program, Becomes "Negro Removal" 3 src
U.S. Congress · Harry Truman
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1949-06-01FCC Establishes Fairness Doctrine Requiring Broadcasters to Present Balanced Coverage of Controversial Issues 7 src
Federal Communications Commission · U.S. Congress
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1949-05-20Armed Forces Security Agency Created, Failed Precursor That Drove NSA Consolidation 2 src
Louis Johnson · Armed Forces Security Agency
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1949-04-04NATO Established - 12 Nations Form Collective Defense Pact, $1.4 Billion Defense Buildup Begins 3 src
Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress · North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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1948-08-03Alger Hiss Testifies Before HUAC as Whittaker Chambers Accuses Him of Espionage 3 src
Richard Nixon · House Un-American Activities Committee
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1948-07-26Executive Order 9981 Desegregates U.S. Military - Truman Repudiates 170 Years of Discrimination 3 src
Harry S. Truman
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1948-07-17Dixiecrat Revolt - Strom Thurmond Leads Segregationist Walkout After Democratic Civil Rights Platform 3 src
Strom Thurmond · Democratic Party
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1948-06-17Robert Moses Begins Cross-Bronx Expressway: Deliberate Destruction of Stable Communities to Build Car Infrastructure 3 src confirmed
1948-05-03Supreme Court Rules Racially Restrictive Housing Covenants Unenforceable 3 src
U.S. Supreme Court · Fred Vinson · NAACP Legal Defense Fund
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1948-04-03Marshall Plan Begins - $13 Billion Aid Program Benefits American Exporters and Defense Industry 3 src
Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress
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1948-01-27Smith-Mundt Act Authorizes State Department Propaganda Apparatus - Voice of America Expands 3 src
Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress · State Department · Voice of America
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1947-12-19NSC 4-A Secretly Authorizes CIA Covert Action Using "Fifth Function" Elastic Clause of 1947 Act 3 src
Harry S. Truman · National Security Council · Central Intelligence Agency
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1947-11-25Waldorf Statement Launches Hollywood Blacklist, Studio Executives Pledge to Fire Hollywood Ten 3 src
Paramount Pictures
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1947-10-20HUAC Hollywood Hearings Begin, Studio Executives Cooperate as "Friendly Witnesses" 6 src
House Un-American Activities Committee · Ronald Reagan
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1947-10-01Federal Loyalty Program Implementation Creates Permanent Political Background-Check Regime 3 src
Harry S. Truman · Federal Bureau of Investigation
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1947-10-01Levittown Opens as America's First Suburb With Explicit Whites-Only Policy 3 src
Federal Housing Administration
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1947-09-18Central Intelligence Agency Begins Operations Under 1947 National Security Act 3 src
Harry S. Truman · Central Intelligence Agency · Allen Dulles
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1947-09-18James Forrestal Becomes First Defense Secretary, Fusing Wall Street Financial Power with Pentagon 3 src
Harry Truman · U.S. Department of Defense
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1947-07-26National Security Act Establishes Permanent Warfare State and Military-Industrial Framework 5 src
Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress · U.S. Department of Defense · Central Intelligence Agency · +1
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1947-07-26National Security Act: Structural Transfer of Military-Intelligence Policy From Congressional to Executive Control 3 src
Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress
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1947-06-23Anti-Communist Loyalty Oaths and Taft-Hartley Act Weaponized to Crush Labor Movement 6 src
CIO · AFL
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1947-06-23Taft-Hartley Act Severely Restricts Union Power, Enables State Right-to-Work Laws 3 src
Robert Taft · Republican Party · Harry Truman · National Association of Manufacturers · +1
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1947-04-10Mont Pelerin Society Founded with Volker Fund Support, Launching International Free-Market Network 3 src
Milton Friedman
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1947-03-21Executive Order 9835 Establishes Federal Loyalty Program - 5 Million Screened, Guilt Presumed 4 src
Harry S. Truman · Federal Bureau of Investigation · House Un-American Activities Committee
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1947-03-12Truman Doctrine Announces $400 Million Military Aid Package - Cold War Containment Policy Begins 3 src
Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress · Dean Acheson
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1947-01-01National Association of Manufacturers Drafts Taft-Hartley Act "Sentence by Sentence, Paragraph by Paragraph" 3 src
National Association of Manufacturers · Robert Taft · Republican Party
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1946-11-09Price Controls End After Corporate Decontrol Campaign, Inflation Spikes 3 src
Harry Truman · National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · U.S. Congress
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1946-08-01Atomic Energy Act Creates AEC, Establishes Unprecedented Peacetime Secrecy Regime 3 src
U.S. Congress · Harry Truman · General Electric
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1946-06-11Administrative Procedure Act Codifies Regulatory Process, Creates Industry Capture Opportunities 3 src
U.S. Congress · Harry Truman · American Bar Association · Federal Agencies
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1946-05-01Operation Dixie Launched to Unionize the South, Met with Violent Corporate Resistance 3 src
Congress of Industrial Organizations · United Auto Workers · Ku Klux Klan
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1946-03-05US-UK Sign Secret BRUSA/UKUSA Signals Intelligence Agreement, Foundation of Five Eyes 3 src
Government Communications Headquarters
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1946-02-20Employment Act of 1946 Gutted, Full Employment Guarantee Abandoned 3 src
U.S. Congress · Harry Truman · National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · +2
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1946-01-01National Association of Manufacturers Launches Massive Anti-Union Propaganda Campaign After Strike Wave 7 src
National Association of Manufacturers · General Motors · U.S. Steel · General Electric · +2
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1945-11-21Largest Strike Wave in U.S. History Begins as 5 Million Workers Walk Out 4 src
United Auto Workers · United Mine Workers · United Steelworkers · Walter Reuther · +2
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1945-11-19Truman Proposes National Health Insurance, AMA Mobilizes Unprecedented Opposition Campaign 3 src
Harry S. Truman · American Medical Association · Robert Taft
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1945-09-20Truman Signs Executive Order 9621 Dissolving OSS: Wall Street Intelligence Elite Returns to Private Sector 3 src
Harry Truman · William Donovan · Allen Dulles · William Casey
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1945-09-06Truman 21-Point Program Defeated, Corporate Backlash Against New Deal Begins 3 src
Harry Truman · U.S. Congress · National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · +1
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1945-09-03Operation Paperclip Secretly Recruits Nazi Scientists, Whitewashes War Crimes 3 src
U.S. War Department · State Department · Harry Truman
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1945-09-01Project SHAMROCK Begins, NSA Obtains Copies of All International Cables for 30 Years 3 src
Armed Forces Security Agency · National Security Agency · Harry S. Truman
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1945-08-15WWII Defense Contractors Convert to Peacetime Economy While Maintaining Pentagon Subsidies and Infrastructure 3 src
Boeing · Lockheed · General Dynamics · War Production Board
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1945-01-03HUAC Made Permanent Standing Committee, Institutionalizes Political Persecution 3 src
U.S. House of Representatives · House Un-American Activities Committee
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1944-12-18Korematsu v. United States - Supreme Court Upholds Japanese Internment 3 src
U.S. Supreme Court · Hugo Black · Frank Murphy · Department of Justice
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1944-11-07Arkansas and Florida Become First States to Pass Right-to-Work Laws Through Racist, Anti-Semitic Campaign 3 src confirmed
1944-07-21Democratic Convention Ousts Henry Wallace, Party Bosses Install Truman 3 src
Harry Truman · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Democratic National Committee
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1944-07-17Port Chicago Disaster and Black Sailors Mutiny Conviction 3 src
U.S. Navy · Thurgood Marshall · NAACP
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1944-07-01Bretton Woods Conference Establishes Dollar Hegemony Through IMF and World Bank 4 src
U.S. Treasury · International Monetary Fund · World Bank
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1944-06-22GI Bill Passed with Discriminatory State Implementation Enabling Racial Wealth Gap 7 src
Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · American Legion
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1944-04-03Smith v. Allwright: Supreme Court Strikes Down White Primaries, Opening Democratic Party to Black Voters 3 src
U.S. Supreme Court · Thurgood Marshall · NAACP Legal Defense Fund
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1943-07-01Curtiss-Wright Exposed for Supplying Defective Aircraft Engines to Military 7 src
Truman Committee · Harry S. Truman
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1943-06-25Smith-Connally Act Criminalizes Union Political Contributions, Spawns First PACs 3 src
Franklin D. Roosevelt · Congress of Industrial Organizations · United Mine Workers · U.S. Congress
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1943-06-20Detroit Race Riot Exposes Housing Segregation and War Production Tensions 3 src
NAACP
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1943-04-08Hold the Line Order Freezes Wages While Corporate Profits Soar 3 src
Franklin D. Roosevelt · AFL · CIO · John L. Lewis
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1943-02-01Army Signal Intelligence Service Begins VENONA Soviet Cable Decryption, Foundation for Post-War Counterintelligence 3 src
Federal Bureau of Investigation · National Security Agency
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1943-01-01American Enterprise Association Moves to Washington to Oppose New Deal, Precursor to AEI Think Tank 3 src
Eli Lilly
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1942-12-21Anaconda Wire and Cable Indicted for $6 Million Fraud Selling Defective Equipment 3 src
Department of Justice · Truman Committee · Francis Biddle
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1942-10-20Alien Property Custodian Seizes Bush-Thyssen Nazi Banking Assets 3 src
U.S. Treasury Department
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1942-09-01Committee for Economic Development Founded as Business-Government Policy Coordination Body 3 srcconfirmed
1942-08-04Bracero Program Begins 22-Year Guest Worker Exploitation System 3 src
U.S. Department of Labor · Mexican Government · Railroad companies
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1942-07-02FDR Proclamation 2561 Creates Military Tribunal for Nazi Saboteurs; Ex parte Quirin Becomes Cited Precedent for Post-9/11 Detention 3 src
Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Supreme Court · Francis Biddle · J. Edgar Hoover
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1942-06-13Office of Strategic Services Created, Wall Street Lawyers Build Intelligence Apparatus 3 src
William Donovan · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Allen Dulles · Wall Street
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1942-04-28Renegotiation Act Enables Limited War Profit Recovery After Corporate Resistance 3 src
U.S. Congress · U.S. War Department · Defense contractors · Truman Committee
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1942-03-26Standard Oil-IG Farben Cartel Exposed, Senator Truman Calls It Treason 3 src
Harry Truman · Department of Justice
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1942-02-19Executive Order 9066 as Executive-Power Template: FDR's Internment Authority Predicate for 2001 Detention Architecture 3 src
Franklin D. Roosevelt · Francis Biddle · Earl Warren
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1942-02-19Executive Order 9066 Authorizes Japanese American Internment 3 src
Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. War Department
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1942-01-16War Production Board Establishes Corporate-Government Fusion Model 4 src
Franklin D. Roosevelt · War Production Board · Defense contractors
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1942-01-12National War Labor Board Established, No-Strike Pledge Constrains Unions 3 src
Franklin D. Roosevelt · AFL · CIO · War Production Board
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1942-01-01Bracero Program Wage Theft - Wells Fargo Transfers $32 Million That Disappears in Mexico 3 src
Mexican Government
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1941-12-07FBI Pre-Pearl-Harbor Japanese-American Dossier System Provides Internment Target Lists 3 src
J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Franklin D. Roosevelt
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1941-05-06FCC Establishes Television Ownership Limit of Three Stations to Prevent Media Monopoly Concentration 3 src
Federal Communications Commission
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1941-04-17Ford Willow Run Bomber Plant Built with Taxpayer Funds, Private Profits 3 src
Ford Motor Company · Henry Ford · U.S. War Department
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1941-03-01Truman Committee Established to Investigate War Profiteering 4 src
Harry S. Truman · U.S. Senate · Defense contractors
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1940-10-08Excess Profits Tax Passed with Corporate Lobbying Loopholes 3 src
U.S. Congress · Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Treasury Department · National Association of Manufacturers · +1
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1940-06-28Smith Act Criminalizes Advocacy of Government Overthrow, Enables Political Persecution 3 src
U.S. Congress · Department of Justice · Franklin D. Roosevelt
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1940-01-01WWII Corporate Profits Soar 113% as Cost-Plus Contracts Enable Massive War Profiteering 6 src
U.S. corporations · General Motors
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