1.  The Family ◦ Rising Divorce rate. Why?  8 million worked during war ◦ How to be a good wife

2.  The Economy ◦ US Gov’t cancelled wartime orders  $35 billion ◦ 1 million workers laid off 10 days after Jap. surrender ◦ War ends Aug 1945 ◦ By May 1946, 3 million are unemployed ◦ Prices skyrocket  Not enough consumer goods (people wait on line)  Coffee, sugar, beans ◦ 2 years before prices stabalize

3.  Recovery ◦ $135 billion in savings ◦ What did they do with the $$$?  Cold War helped economy ◦ How? ◦ What were we spending money on?  Marshall Plan ◦ Foreign market for US goods

4.  Television  1951: $ 795  2011: $6790

5.  Truman had to restore economy  Strikes ◦ High prices, lower wages ◦ 4.5 million workers  Threatened to draft them ◦ You can make soldiers do anything  Went to Congress for permission ◦ Unions gave in before speech was over

6.  Truman = Democrat  Republicans asked: “Had Enough”?  1946: R. controlls Senate & HOR ◦ Cancels a lot of pro-labor laws

7.  African-Americans still unequal  Congress won’t act  Truman signs executive orders ◦ Integrates the military ◦ Ends discovery in hiring gov’t employees

8. Election of 1948  Rep- Gov. Thomas Dewey (NY) ◦ Liberal Republican  Dem- Pres. H. Truman (Mo) ◦ Civil Rights/ Fair Deal  Prog- Sec. Henry Wallace ◦ Civil Rights/ Socialism  Dixiecrats- Gov. Strom Thurmond (SC) ◦ State’s Rights ◦ Pro segregation

9. Harry Truman (D-MO)Tomas Dewey (R-NY

10. Election of 1948  Truman (D)- 49.6%/ 303  Dewey (R)- 45.1%/ 189  Thurmond (Dixie)- 2.4%/ 39  Wallace (P)- 2.4%/ 0

13.  1951: Truman is unliked ◦ Korean War ◦ McCarthyism ◦ Doesn’t run for re-election  Reps talk about rise of Communism in China & E. Europe  Nominate Dwight D. Eisenhower ◦ “I Like Ike” “I Like Ike”

14.  Eisenhower wins  Middle of the road  Conservative when it comes to money  Liberal when it comes to human beings  Raised minimum wage  Extended Social Security  Increased $ for public housing  Interstate highways  Won re-election in 1956

15. Who am I talking about?

16. 25% living below poverty level Mostly minorities African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans

17.  Middle Class whites moved to suburbs ◦ Took businesses & money ◦ Isolated from other races  Rural poor African Americans moved to cities ◦ $ in cities decreased ◦ Less taxes ◦ Poor schools, fire, police, transportation  People in suburbs refused to believe poverty could exist in USA

18.  Provide decent home & job to every family  Tear down old buildings ◦ Replace w/ low income housing  Created new Cabinet position ◦ Housing & Urban Development  Lots of housing replaced by parks, stadiums, roads, malls, parking lots ◦ What is the problem here?