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27:1 Postwar America

1944 GI Bill of Rights Help assimilating 10 million soldiers back into civilian life. Job priority College Tuition & living expenses 1 year unemployment Federally guaranteed home loans

GI Bill of Rights Federally backed loans for housing Created a Social Revolution-Large numbers of “common people” could afford to buy their own homes.

Levittowns Surburbia Mass Produced Houses Large planned suburban communities

GI Bill and Education Free Tuition for college Better paying jobs Rise of middle class Able to send their kids (baby boom generation) to college, etc.

1946 Elections Republicans take over Congress – Truman tough on strikers – Shortage of consumer goods during WWII – inflation

Truman supports Civil Rights Wanted: anti lynching laws, no poll taxes, equal economic opportunity Issued: Executive Order to integrate the military

1948 Presidential Election Dixicrats – Southern democrats opposed to Truman’s emphasis on civil rights – Split the Deomcratic Party

1948 Presidential Election Truman wins despite division in Democratic Party.

1952 Presidential Elections Problems for Democrats: – Stalemate in Korea – Labor unrest – Inflation – McCarthyism

1952 Presidential Election “I like Ike” Eisenhower’s Platform – Tough on communism – Shrink Federal government

Nixon’s “Checker’s Speech” Illegal campaign contributions? Use of TV – 58 million viewers – Saved campaign

Modern Republicanism Middle of the road politics Avoiding controversial issues

Eisenhower and Civil Rights 1954 Brown v. Board of Education overturns Plessey 1955 Rosa Parks Beginning of the Civil Rights Movement

Jackie Robinson Breaks the color barrier in Pro-sports Brooklyn Dodgers 1 st African American inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame

27:2 American Dream in the Fifties

Baby Boom Spouses reunited People had good jobs, houses, and money Young couples married Medical advances

Salk Vaccine Dr. Jonas Salk Polio

Dr. Spock Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care Childrearing practices 2 nd best selling non-fiction book of all time?

50’s Women Women Happy in Suburbia?? Rise of Women’s Equality Movement (NOW)

Ike’s Interstate Highway Act Military Purpose Increased mobility Rise of Suburbia Booming Car Industry

Technological Wonders Air conditioning – Increased urban development, more skyscrapers – Changed housing styles Ranch Lowered ceilings Smaller windows Eliminated “sleeping porches” – Rise of Sunbelt Cities

Consumerism New products Planned obsolescence Credit cards/installment plan Advertising

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