Federal Civil Defense Administration

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| formed = {{Start date and age|1950|11|01}}

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The Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA) was organized by President Harry S. Truman on December 1, 1950, through Executive Order 10186,{{cite web |url=https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/279069 |title= Harry S. Truman, Executive Order 10186—Establishing the Federal Civil Defense Administration in the Office for Emergency Management of the Executive Office of the President |author1=Peters, Gerhard |author2=Woolley, John T |publisher = University of California - Santa Barbara |work= The American Presidency Project}} and became an official government agency via the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950 on 12 January 1951.[https://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~wgreen/Ecdtruman.htm Civil Defense: The Truman Administration (Entry 0113)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029191242/https://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~wgreen/Ecdtruman.htm |date=2013-10-29 }} from The Electronic Encyclopaedia of Civil Defense and Emergency Management edited by Walter G. Green III In 1958 the FCDA was superseded by the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization when President Dwight D. Eisenhower merged the FCDA with the Office of Defense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.[https://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~wgreen/Ecdeisenhower.htm Civil Defense: The Eisenhower Administration (Entry 0107)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120531075014/https://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~wgreen/Ecdeisenhower.htm |date=2012-05-31 }} from The Electronic Encyclopaedia of Civil Defense and Emergency Management edited by Walter G. Green III

In its early years, the agency focused on evacuation as a strategy.

The FCDA was first headed by Millard Caldwell under Truman, then Val Peterson under Eisenhower.[http://www.coldwar.org/articles/50s/women_civildefense.asp THE FEDERAL CIVIL DEFENSE AGENCY (FCDA) WOMEN DEFEND THE NATION (1950)] from The Cold War Museum