Mr. Williams 10th Grade U.S. History America After the War Mr. Williams 10th Grade U.S. History

Soldiers Return Home 12 million men and women returned home after war Baby Boom!: Dramatic rise in birthrate, families got larger From 1940 to 1949 this grew 25% and sustained consumer demand What kind of things would need to be bought?

G.I. Bill $ for college or job training 1947 Veterans accounted for 49% of people who were admitted to college Unemployment pay of $20/Week Loans for homes, farms, or businesses From 1944 to 1952, VA backed nearly 2.4 million home loans

What is a suburb? What does the term conformity mean? Describe the First Red Scare after WWI. How did our government attempt to deal with those problems?

Fighting Domestic Communism “Loyalty Program” Executive Order 9835 required investigation into ever federal employee (over 6 MILLION) Nearly 2,000 civil service employees losing their jobs and 10,000 more resigned

Smith Act: Made it a crime to call for the overthrow of the U. S Smith Act: Made it a crime to call for the overthrow of the U.S. government or belong to an organization that did so McCarran Act: Required Communist organizations to register with the govt. and established a special board to investigate Communist involvement

Red Scare HUAC investigated possible Communist subversion after WWII Politicians, Teachers, Writers, Musicians and anyone in the Film Industry “Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the communist party?” 1947 Blacklist official policy of Hollywood to make sure business did not suffer

“While I cannot take the time to name all the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were….members of the Communist Party and nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department”

Describe the tactics of HUAC and Joseph McCarthy Describe the tactics of HUAC and Joseph McCarthy. How did the Cold War and/or 1950s culture affect the fear and attitudes people had during this time period? Was the U.S. government justified in their pursuits? Why or Why Not? 3.8 Format