1. Postwar America
Chapter 19 section 1

2. Recovery GI Bill (10 Million returning veterans) Suburbs
Tuition
1 yr. unemployment
Low interest loans
-Housing Shortage
Assembly-line methods
Mass-produce houses
Suburbs
$7,000

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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.