1. Chapter 19 : The Postwar Boom

2. H.Q. 19.1
What president replaced Truman? Who was his Vice Presidential candidate?
What is the name of the southern Democrats who were mad at Truman's position on civil rights?
What was the name of the one of the men who devised a system to solve the housing crisis?
What is the name of the Bill that allowed veterans to go to college or have money to apply for mortgages?

3. H.Q. 19.1
What president replaced Truman? Who was his Vice Presidential candidate?
What was the name of Richard Nixon's dog that he received as a gift and kept?
Who was the leader of the Dixiecrats?
How did President Truman change the military?

4. Section 1: Readjustment and Recovery

5. Readjustment and Recovery Problems and Opportunities for Veterans
1. Economic Problems
High unemployment. Why?
Inflation. Why?

6. Problems and Opportunities for Veterans (cont.)
2. Veterans Return
What will they do?
Over 10 million veterans returned from the war.
3. GI Bill of Rights—1944
The government would pay part of the tuition.
Provided low interest loans for homes or businesses.

7. Problems and Opportunities for Veterans
(cont.)
4. Housing Crisis
There were not enough homes for all of the returning veterans.

8. Solution? Suburbs Mass-produced homes (assembly line)
Zoning laws ensured they stayed the same
Created rigid conformity
Contributed to the decline of urban centers (cities)

9. $7,990 or $60/month with no down payment.
Levittown, L. I.: “The American Dream”
1949  William Levitt produced houses per week.
$7,990 or $60/month with no down payment.

11. Canton, Mi (Cherry Hill and Ridge Roads)
Cherry Hill Village
Canton, Mi (Cherry Hill and Ridge Roads)

13. Suburbs (cont.) Millions of people were put to work Skilled trades
Construction
Public works (sewage, maintenance, etc.)
Raw materials (lumber, petroleum, etc.)
Banking and finance
Businesses followed people

14. Death of an American City
Detroit
Death of an American City

20. A. President Truman post-WWII
II. Politics
A. President Truman post-WWII
President Truman had to overcome a number of labor issues.
Railroads, steel factories and coal mines went on strike in 1946.
Asked Congress to draft the workers into the army. (1:20 min.)
They went back to work.

21. 2. President Truman became unpopular and in 1946 the Republicans won the House and Senate for the first time since 1928.

22. III. Social Unrest Truman and Civil Rights
1.Pushed for legislation including:
Anti-lynching laws
Ban on poll taxes
Integration of the military
Integration of federal workforce
2. Many African-Americans returning from the war demanded rights.
3. In 1947, the Brooklyn Dodgers ended segregation in major league baseball by allowing Jackie Robinson to join the team.

24. Nominated Strom Thurmond for President.
Election of 1948
To protest Truman’s civil rights record, many Southern Democrats formed the States’ Rights “Dixiecrat” Party
Nominated Strom Thurmond for President.
Republicans nominated Thomas Dewey
Truman, an underdog, traveled the country by train and called out Congress, “do-nothing, 80th Congress”
Strom Thurmond
Served in the Senate for 48 years

25. Truman Wins (2:37 min.)

27. IV. 1952 Republicans Take the White House
Democrats nominate Adlai Stevenson.
Republicans nominated Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952.
Ike wins despite the problems brought on by Richard Nixon.
Nixon was accused of illegally taking money form supporters
Went on TV to defend himself. (4:46 min.)

28. Ike had a number of domestic successes:
Pushed for the creation of an interstate highway system.
In 1954, SC ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that public school needed to end racial segregation
Ike supported integration