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