Postwar America Chapter 19 section 1

Recovery GI Bill (10 Million returning veterans) Suburbs Tuition 1 yr. unemployment Low interest loans http://militarybenefits.info/post-911-gi-bill-2013-2014-payment-rates/ -Housing Shortage Assembly-line methods Mass-produce houses Suburbs $7,000

Cont. Change roles after WWII Rising divorce rate 75% of married women entered workforce during WWII Did not want to give up independence Rising unemployment because defense work disappeared. Inflation = (OPA) Prices skyrocketed after war

Recovery People went without for too long Saved money during the war years because of lessons learned in the depression Defense work, service pay, War Bonds People began to buy Economy boomed Cold war = economic growth Defense spending Marshall Plan Foreign exports high

Civil Rights Racial violence erupted in the South Truman supported Civil Rights “I am asking for equality of opportunity for all human beings, . . . And if that ends up in my failure to be reelected, that failure will be in a good cause.” Anti lynching law --- Ban of poll tax Congress refused to pass these bills July 1948 = Executive order Integration of the armed forces End to discrimination in the hiring of government employees

1948 Election Many not happy with Truman Took campaign to the people Inflation – Labor unrest Took campaign to the people Traveled one end of the country to the other “Whistle Top Campaign” Truman won Democrats gained control of Congress

Fair Deal Extension of FDR’s New Deal Nationwide system of compulsory health insurance Crop subsidy – steady income for farmers Raised minimum wage 40 cents = 75 cents Flood / Irrigation projects Clear out the slums Build housing units – Low income

Republicans 1952 Truman = Did not run for re-election Republicans = Dwight D. Eisenhower “Ike” V.P. = Richard M. Nixon Slush fund / Controversy Checkers Speech Eisenhower won http://www.history.com/videos/the-checkers-speech#the-checkers-speech

Eisenhower Brown v Board of Education = 1954 Rosa Parks Walked the middle line on Civil Rights Brown v Board of Education = 1954 Public schools must be integrated Rosa Parks Refused to give up seat on bus to a white man Boycott of the entire Montgomery Alabama, bus system Martin Luther King Jr.