GroupWork26

PEGS Political: 1. Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 = GI Bill of Rights 2. 22nd amendment: limit's a president to a maximum of 2 full terms in office 3.Truman reelected in 1948, even though most thought republican candidate Dewey was going to win the election 4. North Atlantic Treaty Organization- defend all members from outside attack 5. Japan's reconstruction was headed by General MacArthur Economic: 1. Truman Doctrine: $400 million in economic and military aid to assist the "free people" of Greece and Turkey against totalitarian regimes. 2. Taft - Hartley Act (1947) = probusiness 3. inflation rate of almost 25% in the first year and a half of peace 4. Employment Act of 1946 = series of progressive measures 5. war years increased per-capita income of Americans Geographic: 1. Millions of Americans, often GIs, made moving a habit in the postwar era towards a warmer climate, lower taxes, and economic opportunities in defense-related industries to Sunbelt states from Florida to California 2. William J. Levittown - building promotion of Levittown, a project of 17000 mass-produced low priced family homes on Long Island, NY 3.Korea became divided between the Communists (North) and the Nationalists (South) 4. The United States sent $400 million to the Nationalist but 80% of this aid fell into Communist hands 5. By the 1960s cities from Boston to Los Angeles became increasingly poor and racially divided Social: 1. Majority of middle-class Americans became suburbanites 2. Soviet Union in the postwar era and the spread of communism spawns a widespread panic as the Second Red Scare 3. Baby Boom:an explosion in marriages and births after WWII...younger marriages and larger famlies resulted in 50 million babies entering the US population between 1945 and 1960 4. GI - men and women in uniform 5. Committee on Civil Rights in 1946 established by Truman's use of executive power

Chronology: 1945 United States ends lend-lease to USSR 1947 National Security Act creates the Departement of defense, National Security Council and CIA Taft- Hartly Act 1948 United States officially recognizes Israel Truman defeats Dewey for presidency 1951 Truman fires MacArthur 1952 United States explodes the first Hydrogen bomb

Mnemonic:

China taken over by Communist regime led by Mao Zedong Occupation zones in Germany: eastern zone under Soviet occupation gradually evolved into a new communist state, the German Democratic Republic-although the occupation by the Soviets, French, Brits, and US were only supposed to be temporary. Moderate Democrat - Truman MacArthur was put in charge of reconstruction of Japan US-Soviet relations during World War II were more of an alliance of convenience rather than an alliance of mutual respect. North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a military alliance for defending all members from outside attack Invasion of South Korea by communist North Korea: June 25, 1950 South and North Korea split into two separate countries-South being democratic and North being communist. McCarthy gains power riding wave of anticommunist feelings...cruelty exposed in the Army-McCarthy hearings and lost power.