Chapter+26-Michelle+Burroughs

Chapter 26-

i) GI Bill- Help for veterans a) Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 1.Supported soldiers into economy, continued edu., loans for homes ect 2. Caused education boom - economic expansion ii) Baby boom 1945 - 1960 a) Explosion in marriages and births (younger marriages) 1. Effected nations social interest & economic life 2. Homemakers wanted to have kids but 1960 - 1/3 of married women worked iii) Suburban Growth a) Construction boom --> Levittown had low priced homes (long Island) 1. Low interest, tax deductible --> people move to cities became disastrous. Poor and racism increased. iv) Rise of the sunbelt a) Moving became habit to warmer climates, lower taxes, and economic opportunities 1. Cold War helped finance the move i) Economic Program and Civil Rights a) Employment Act of 1946 1. Sept. 1945- progressive measures: health insurance, increase min. wage,full employment b) Inflation and Strikes 1. Relaxing office of Price Administration cause inflation rate-25% 2. 4.5 mil. workers went on strike (1946) --> Truman made soldiers operate mines til the strikes ended c) Civil Right 1. Committee on civil rights (1946) ended seg. in schools and ended discrimination in federal gov. and military ii) Republican control of the 18th congress a) 22nd Admend. 1951 1. limit president to maximum of two years of office b) Taft Hartley Act (1947) Unions fought 1. Slave labor bill included: workers had 2 join union b4 working, "right to work", outlawed 2nd strikes, president had 80day cooling off period b4 strikes iii) The Election of 1948 a) Truman's popularity fell 1. Dem.- Thurmond Rep.- Dewey 2. Truman won iv) The Fair Deal a) 1949 national health care insurance, federal aid to education, civil rights leg., fand ounds for public housing. 1. Defeated because (1) Trumans conflict with congress (2) forgein policy concerns of cold war i) US Soviet Relations to 1945 a. Bolshevik Rev. that est. communist rule --> Red Scare 1. Nonagression Pact b. Allies in WW II 1. US and Soviets not in trust --> bad relations in Big 3 c.Postwar coperation --> the UN 1. Security Council (peacekeeping missions) 2. Est. World Bank d. Satellite States in E. Euope 1. Hostility in 1946 with communist leaders being elected e. Iron Cutain (Churchill speech) 1. Spies lead to get tough policy in DC i) The Truman Doctrine a) policy made in responce to: (1) communist uprisings (2) Sov. Control for Turkey 1. March 1947 $400 million and millions of military aid sent to free people of Greece and Turkey ii) Marshall Plan
 * 1. Postwar America**
 * 2. Postwar Politics**
 * 3. Orgins of the Cold War**
 * 4. Containment in Europe 1947**- to contain Sov. agression