Anticommunism

McCarran-Walter Act Imposes Racialized Immigration Quotas Over Truman Veto - 85% for Europeans

1952-06-27 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

Congress passes the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter Act) over President Truman’s veto on June 27, 1952, codifying a racialized immigration quota system that allocates 85 percent of the 154,277 visas available annually to individuals of northern and western European …

Pat McCarran Francis E. Walter Harry S. Truman U.S. Congress Herbert Lehman immigration racial-discrimination quota-system legislative-override anticommunism

China Lobby Intensifies Campaign After Nationalist Retreat to Taiwan - Alfred Kohlberg Funds Propaganda

1949-12-08 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 7/10

The Chinese Nationalist government relocates its capital to Taiwan on December 8, 1949, after Communist forces complete their victory in the Chinese Civil War, intensifying the “China Lobby’s” campaign to shape U.S. foreign policy in support of Chiang Kai-shek’s regime. The …

Alfred Kohlberg Chiang Kai-shek T.V. Soong Henry R. Luce Walter H. Judd +1 more foreign-lobbying propaganda cold-war anticommunism influence-operations