1. 5/21 Take out your review book and Aug 2013 answer sheet. Put Truman note sheet, #1, into new table of Contents.. Aug. 2013 Please make sure your name, the title of the test and total correct over 12.5 is on your paper or 3 points will be taken off your score. 26. 2 27.4 28.1 29.1 30.2 31.3 32.2 33.3 34.1 35.2 36.4 37. 4 38.2 39.2 40.1 41.4 42.4 43.3 44.1 45.2 46.4 47.3 48.4 49.1 50.2 History Channel-Harry S. Truman

2. Truman Domestic and Foreign Policy I can explain the domestic programs and foreign policy actions of Pres.Truman.

3. Baby Boom- Population explosion

4. What does this lead to? Levittown- Rise of prefab homes in the suburbs to meet the needs of soldier coming home from war. 1950's Building in Levittown

5. Domestic THE FAIR DEAL -Economic controls, an increase in the minimum wage, expansion of the Social Security program, a housing bill, national health insurance, development projects modeled on the New Deal's Tennessee Valley Authority, liberalized immigration laws, and ambitious civil rights legislation for African-Americans. VETO of Taft-Hartley Act- However Congress’ override of the veto put limits on the ability of Unions to strike.

6. Domestic Policy GI Bill of Rights- Benefits included low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, cash payments of tuition and living expenses to attend university, high school or vocational education, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. Executive Order 9981- Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)

7. Domestic Effects HUAC – House of Un-American Activities Committee Senator Joe McCarthy – claims Communists in the Department of State Alger Hiss, government employee named a Soviet spy Ethel and Julius Rosenberg – arrested for selling secrets to the USSR, sentenced to death for treason

8. Hollywood Black list Victims of Hollywood Blacklist

9. Foreign Policy- CONTAINMENT Truman Doctrine- “Truman likes greasy turkey”. Truman asks Congress for aid to Greece and Turkey, $400 million in aid to defend against Communist rebels. Marshall Plan enacted, billions of $ in aid for 16 European nations. Korean War-1949-1952 United Nation defends South Korea after invasion from North. War ends in an armistice, border returns to 38th parallel

10. Foreign Effects Berlin Blockade: USSR blockades all access to West Berlin, US airlifts supplies. The Soviet blockade ends after nearly a year. Hotline - direct phone link between US President Kennedy in the White House, and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in the Kremlin Space Race – April 1961 Soviet Union was the first to put a man in Space. July 20 th 1969 – US put Neil Armstrong on the Moon “That’s one small step for man and….one giant leap for mankind”