The Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA) was organized by President Harry S. Truman on December 1, 1950, through Executive Order 10186, and became an official government agency via the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950 on 12 January 1951. In 1958 the FCDA was superseded by the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization when President Dwight D. Eisenhower merged the FCDA with the Office of Defense Mobilization .
3-560: FCDA may refer to: Federal Civil Defense Administration , a defunct official US government agency that operated from 1951 to 1958 Federal Civil Defense Authority , an official US government agency that operated from 1972 to 1979, when it was succeeded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
6-672: The agency focused on evacuation as a strategy. The FCDA was first headed by Millard Caldwell under Truman, then Val Peterson under Eisenhower. The predecessor to the FCDA, the Office of Civilian Defense was abolished in June 1945 with the end of World War II . In the period between the end of the World War and 1949, when the Soviet Union detonated their first atomic weapon, little
9-482: The title FCDA . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FCDA&oldid=745090016 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Federal Civil Defense Administration In its early years,
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