RB+26

Pegs Political: ~unemployment act of 1946 ~workers went on strike to get higher wages. truman kept businesses open with soldiers ~Comittee on civil rights in 1946 ~aided end to segregation in schools ~22nd amendment Economic ~ 15 million american soldiers came home without jobs ~income had increase per capita while war was going on ~a lot of $ was in savings accounts ~highest standard of living by any society in history by 1950s ~era of unprecedented prosperity and economic growth Geographic ~More people moved to the sunbelt states ~Korean war- 38th parallel ~Chinese nationalists(taiwan) v. chinese communists(china) ~europe was destroyed after ww2. enacted marshall plan to heal it. ~berlin airlift fed the people in the eastern berlin zone. Social ~explosion in marriages ~baby boom(explosion in births) ~younger marriages and bigger families ~more women in workplace ~suburbia became popular because of low cost mortgages and govt insured loans

Coertney's Mnemonics

Fighting these countries is ounly the tip of the iceburg. The root is the Soviet union.

Government passed laws to keep communists from speaking out during red scare.



Mccarthy put lots of people on trial, and they were usually convicted. The rickety platform is showing how easy it is to lose a trial when you are put on the stand because of mccarthy.

Coral's Mnemonics

22nd amendment limited the presidency to 2 terms [|newspaper article] the baby boom made a huge social and economic impact on society [|baby boom poster] many Americans moved from cities to the suburbs which caused the cities to become poor [|suburbs] the Taft-Hartley Act limited unions' growing power [|political cartoon]