American after the Second World War (1945)

?
View mindmap
  • 1945
    • Roosevelt exhausted by the war
    • Germany surrenders in May
    • Truman orders an Atomic Bomb to be dropped in Japan
    • Japan Surrenders
    • After WW2, America was rich with natural resources
      • Coal
      • Iron Ore
      • Timber
      • Minerals
    • Economic boom
    • Industry expanded after WW2
      • Aircraft
      • Electrical
      • Chemical
      • Tobacco
      • Food- processing
      • Pharmaceuticals
    • 7% global population was in America
    • 42% of the income came from America
    • Regional and Social ethnic divisions
    • White Anglo Saxon's (WASP's) racial security
    • Widespread of segregation
    • Black, Hispanic and Native American's incomes well below average

Comments

No comments have yet been made

Similar History resources:

See all History resources »See all The American Dream and Inequality resources »