1. We will examine the changes in the US as a result of World War II
Test
AP Review
Chapter reading
Chapter 37 Notes
Period 3 & 7

2. Haymarket Square Riot/ Bombing
Grandfather Clause
Bloody Shirt
William Jennings Bryan
Samuel Gompers
Alfred T. Mahan
The USS Maine

3. Chapter 37 – Cold War Begins Postwar Economy
1947, the Republican Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act over President Truman's veto. It outlawed the "closed" (all-union) shop and required union leaders to take a noncommunist oath.
The GI Bill of Rights or the GI Bill, made generous provisions for sending the former soldiers to school.

4. Reasons for Economic Success
The military budget helped jumpstart high-technology industries such as aerospace, plastics, and electronics.
Cheap energy also fueled the economic boom.
Reasons for Economic Success

6. The "Sunbelt", a 15-state area stretching from Virginia through Florida and Texas to Arizona and California
People moved in search of jobs, better climate, and lower taxes
The Sunbelt

8. In all regions, America's modern white migrants moved from the city to the new suburbs.
home-loan guarantees, making it more economically attractive to own a home in the suburbs
"White flight" to the suburbs and the migration of blacks from the South left the inner cities, especially those in the Northeast and Midwest, to become poverty-stricken.
Growth of Suburbs

13. The Baby Boom
In the decade and a half after 1945, the birth rate in the United States exploded as the "baby boom" took place. More than 50 million babies were born by the end of the 1950s