1. Chapter 14 Sections 1 and 2 Yes, there are a lot of slides
Yes, you need to write this stuff down
Yes, I won’t tell you how many slides there are
Yes, there are more than elevendy
Yes, there are less than a thousandy
Yes, don’t ask me how many slides there are
Yes, you need to know all of this information
Yes, I think its funny to torture you with notes

2. Post-World War Similarities
WWI
WWII
Unemployment
Inflation
Cost of Living
Union issues
View of President/Gov’t
Social Programs:
Planned Parenthood
Expand Social Security
Minimum Wage Increase
National Housing Act
Long-Range environ. & public works planning.
Gov’t Programs:
Emergency Quota Act
National Origins Act
National Prohibition Act
Kellogg-Briand Pact
GI Bill
Taft-Hartley Act
NATO alliance
“Fair Deal”

3. Section Uno (That’s One)
Return to a Peacetime Economy
The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act
GI Bill
Gave loans to veterans to help them start businesses, buy homes, go to college
Economy
Miners were striking because of low wages
Truman forced workers to return to work

4. Republican Victory
Won control of Congress for the first time since 1930
Conservative Congress Combed Caste Combinations
Taft-Hartley Act
Outlawed closed shop (owners must hire union workers)
Right-to-work laws
Outlawed union shops (workers must join unions)
Prohibited featherbedding (practice of limiting output to hire more workers
Passed even with a Truman veto

5. Truman’s Domestic Program
Expand Social Security
Raise minimum wage from $.40 to $.75
Federal spending and investment for full employment
Public housing
Environmental planning
National health insurance
Civil rights (African-Americans the right to vote)
Many proposals were defeated in Congress

6. Election of 1948 TRUMAN v. DEWEY
Truman was given little chance of winning
Who was actually running?
Democrat – Truman
Dixicrat – Thurmond
Progressive – Wallace
Republican – Dewey
Truman attacked the “Do-Nothing Congress”
TRUMAN WINS!

7. The Fair Deal Truman wanted to set his agenda apart form the New Deal
Social Security WAS expanded
National Housing was enacted
Minimum wage was NOT raised
Healthcare was NOT passed
Civil rights was NOT passed

8. EISENHOWER Republican v. Adlai Stevenson Ran in 1952
I like Ike, you like Ike
Everybody likes Ike
Republican v. Adlai Stevenson
Ran in 1952
His running mate, Richard Nixon was under fire for receiving money from California leaders
Gave the “Checkers” speech
Wins in a landslide
Bring out the banner, sound the drum, we’ll take Ike to Washington!

9. Ike as President Dynamic Conservatism Won a SECOND TERM!
Balancing economic conservatism with activism
Ended government price and rent controls
Made conservatives mad
Vetoed a school construction bill
Slashed funding to public schools
Abolished the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) and cut the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Passed the Federal Highway Act
Extended Social Security
Increased minimum wage
Won a SECOND TERM!

10. Section 1 Assessment question #5
Agendas
Truman
Increase gov’t involvement in business
Expand federal spending
Eisenhower
Limit gov’t involvement in business
Curb federal spending

11. Section Dos (That’s Two)
American Abundance
John Kenneth Galbraith
Published The Affluent Society
We had an abundance of goods and services
Spread of Wealth
Between 1940 and 1960 – American income TRIPLED (that’s times 3)
Change in work environments
More Americans had white-collar jobs and outnumbered blue-color workers

12. American Abundance Multinationals and Franchises The Organization Man
Multinational corporations
Positioned near raw materials to lower costs
Franchises
Chain stores increased
The Organization Man
Conformity was VERY important
Book written by William Whyte
Said strong personalities are viewed as a threat

13. American Abundance How many times did I write this on the top?
The New Consumerism
With more money, people bought more luxury items like washing machines and refrigerators
Growth of advertising
The Growth of Suburbia
Levittown
Earliest suburbs
Hundreds of mass-produced houses east of NYC
Some people wanted to leave cities for a more picture-perfect environment

14. The 1950s Family The Baby Boom Women
American birthrate EXPLODED from
Why?
Couples married after the war.
GI Bill gave veterans money to start families.
Culture celebrated pregnancy.
A child was born EVERY seven SECONDS!!
Women
Homemakers
Women did work outside the home, by 1960, 1/3 of married women worked

15. Technological Breakthroughs
Electronics
Transistor (made the miniature radio and calculator possible)
Early computers (ENIAC – for military calculations and UNI-VAC – for business calculations)
Medicine
Antibiotics
Jonas Salk (developed the polio vaccine)
Space
Soviet Union launched Sputnik
1958 – US launched our satellite