1. The World the War Created 1945-1952
Chapter 24
The World the War Created
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2. Science, Medicine, Technology, and the Bomb
New technologies-electric typewriters etc.
New vaccines-Polio, antibiotics
Television-mass produced
Automobiles-new models and obsoletism
Atomic bomb-newer version
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3. Context: Discuss the impact on society.
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4. Returning Veterans, the Baby Boom, and Suburban Homes
GI Bill - 5 million used it to buy homes
2/3rds become home owners
8 million used to attend college
Pent-up consumer demand
Baby Boom
Americans move to the ‘burbs
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5. Levitown
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6. POV: How would this change the economy?
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7. Americans on the Move MAP 24-1, Americans on the Move
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8. The Great Migration — African-Americans Move North
A new generation of African-Americans moved from the South to the North.
By 1960, half of the nation’s African-Americans lived in northern cities.
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9. Latino Migrations from Puerto Rico and Mexico
After World War II, more Spanish-speaking citizens began moving from Puerto Rico to the U.S. mainland, especially New York City.
Bracero Program
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10. The United Nations and the New Economic Order
The International Monetary Fund
The World Bank
The United Nations
The core of the new organization would be a Security Council made up of five permanent members and other delegates serving on a rotating basis.
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11. UDHR: Free and Equal, Elementary Education, No Torture etc.
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12. The Cold War Begins
The Soviet Union establishes communist governments in Eastern Europe.
U.S. desired free governments
Disagreements on Germany, economic aid, & atomic weapons split the U.S. and Soviet Union
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13. The Hardening of Positions: Containment, the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and the Berlin Airlift
U.S. President Harry S. Truman would back a policy of “containment” in regard to Soviet expansion.
Truman Doctrine: “I believe it must be the policy of the U.S. to support free peoples.”
The Marshal Plan-17 billion to Europe
Berlin Airlift
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14. Berlin Airlift Supplies Little Vittles
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15. A Divided Germany MAP 24-2, A Divided Germany
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16. Marshall Plan Funding Propaganda
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17. 1949 — The Soviet Atom Bomb and the Fall of China
1949 – The Soviets have an atomic bomb
Communist victory in China
Containment’s first failure
NATO
Warsaw Pact
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18. A Divided Europe MAP 24-3, A Divided Europe
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19. The Cold War at Home — Joseph McCarthy and a New Red Scare
House Un-American Activities Committee
Hollywood became HUAC’s first target
The Hollywood Ten
Sen. Joseph McCarthy – “McCarthyism”
Smith and McCarran Acts
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20. HUAC & McCarthyism
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21. HUAC
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22. HUAC
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23. McCarthyism
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24. McCarthyism
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25. War in Korea North Korea invades South 1950.
U.S. sees this as an act of aggression of world Communism.
Eventual stalemate at 38th parallel
Settlement began while fighting continued.
Both sides allowed heavy losses to continue.
Division remained the same
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26. “Forgotten war”
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27. The 1948 Election/1952 Elections
1948:Inflation, high prices, and labor unrest all threatened Truman’s re-election
Truman wins
“Fair Deal” - Truman’s attempt to continue New Deal
1952:Republicans - Dwight D. Eisenhower (War Hero)
Democrats - Adlai Stevenson
VP Nixon - “Checkers speech”
Eisenhower victorious
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28. Nixon’s Speech
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