a. Truman sends air force and navy personnel to Korea after North Korea invades the South; ground forces are deployed three days later. June 27
b. Assassination attempt on President Truman by Puerto Rican nationalist’s era of McCarthyism begins. Nov 1
(1) President Harry Truman authorizes U.S. troops to aid South Korean Troops. June 26
(2) Truman the National Security Act, creating, among other things, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
1. Joseph McCarthy claims many in federal government are government are communists his speech ushers in four years of red-baiting later known as the McCarthy era.
a. Philip S. Hench, Edward C. Kendall, and Tadeus Reichstein, for discoveries about hormones of adrenal cortex.