2.  Relations with USSR ◦ Friends or Foes  Domestic economy ◦ Return to depression? ◦ 9 million GI’s return ◦ Divorce rate up ◦ No new homes

3.  $20 billion for programs  $2,000 towards a house  College money  University of Minnesota ◦ ½ veterans ◦ Older ◦ More serious

4.  New home building  Saving during the war  Money to spend  Reconvert Factories  UAW, higher wages ◦ $1.12-$1.45 ◦ Strike ◦.18 gain

5.  Marriage and birth rate rise  Baby Boom, 2.6 kids to 3.2  Traditional sex roles  Experts- women should be home  Dr. Benjamin Spock ◦ Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care

6.  Drop in college percentage  Professional degree decline  Medical, 15% to 5%  Primary consumer, purchaser  Return to “feminine” jobs

7.  1946, 900,000 new homes  1950, 1.7 million  Precut houses, identical  William Levitt ◦ Ready made communities ◦ Parks, schools churches ◦ 1% Black

8.  Lend-Lease ended  Loan to England, Not USSR  Truman/Churchill ◦ “Iron Curtain” drawn ◦ Stalin, End of Capitalism ◦ Containment the key ◦ George Kennan telegram

9.  Greece/Turkey aided  Against Communist rebels  $400 million given  Marshal, aid given to Europe  Expansion on the plan  Germany, France, Britain, 27 billion  Worked in Western Europe

10.  Fearful of Communism  Replaces Fascism  Federal Loyalty-Security Program  House Un-American Activities Committee  Nixon very visible  Ronald Reagan supports it  Alger Hiss sent to jail

11.  Losses in 1946 mid-terms  Truman ◦ Desegregation of the military ◦ Justice Department, Civil Rights Sector  Breaking the Color Line ◦ Baseball, Jack Robinson, Dodgers ◦ Branch Rickey, owner ◦ Self-control the key

12.  Civil Rights Plank adopted  Democrats divided  Truman ◦ Supported Israel ◦ Strong against Stalin ◦ Berlin Airlift, Stalin cut off supplies  300,000 flights of supplies, U.S.  Dewey defeated

13.  The Fall of China  Mao Tse-tung, Communist  Chiang Kai-shek Nationalist  U.S. does not support  600 million lost to communism  NATO formed  Hydrogen bomb sought

14.  Military spending  13 billion to 50 billion  War in Korea ◦ June 25, 1950 ◦ North invades ◦ Ground troops sent ◦ MacArthur in charge ◦ Win at Inchon Bay

15.  “Home before Christmans  Chinese attack  300,000  March 1951 counter attack stalled  MacArthur, hit China hard  Truman, no  MacArthur relieved

16.  Joe McCarthy  Senator, Wisconsin  List of 205 communists  No true list  Red scare  School drills for Nuclear attacks  Eisenhower elected