Harry S. Truman
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- Harry S. Truman
- The changing political environment
- The Second Red Scare - 1947-54
- Joseph McCarthy
- 205 to 57 to 81
- Trials of Alger Hiss (1949; retrial 1950)
- Rosenbergs found guilty
- Joseph McCarthy
- Korean War - 1950-53
- 7 July 1950 - news papers published false headlines on Truman
- Houseo of Un-American Activities Commission (HUAC)
- 1949 - China became communist
- Cold War
- USA vs USSR
- "The Truman Doctrine" followed by Marshall Aid
- 1949 - NATO - North Altlantic Treaty Organisation
- Atomic bombs rose from 13 to 50 (1947-48)
- 1947 - National Security Act - reorganise military forces
- CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) and National Security Council reported to the White House.
- President didnt need to consult Congress to go to nuclear war (among other things)
- The Second Red Scare - 1947-54
- The quest for civil rights
- 1946 - President's Committee on Civil Rights - calling for equal opportunities and housing
- Morgan vs Virginia
- Cold War distracted him
- National ***** Congress - ended up on the governments list of expected communist groups
- 1948 - Executive orders to desegregate the military and all work done in business for the government
- Sweatt vs Painter - desegregate Tax law school
- NAACP membership - 9,000 (1917), 90,000 (1919), 600,000 (1946)
- 1948 - Shelley vs Kramer - bans regulations that bar black people buying houses in an area in any state
- CORE sit-ins
- 1947 -Fellowship of Reconciliation - CORE
- Society and culture change
- GI bills
- 1946 - Federally funded day-care centres closed down
- Married women in the workforce = 10.1% (1940) - 22.2% (1950) - ages 45-54
- Percentage who believed married women shouldn't work - 82% (1936) - 78% (1938) - 13% (1942) - then started to rise steadily after the war again 38% (1978)
- 1952 - Immigration and Nationality Act (McCarren-Walter Act)
- Refugee Act's placed because it didn't allow for refugees (greatly needed in the Cold War)
- Division of immigrants due to WWII - Japanese were treated with hostility.
- 1948 - Displaced Persons Act (extended 1950) - Allowing of the immigration of 450,000 - Truman argued for it not to be restricted by quotas but failed.
- 1953 - Refugee Relief Act - extends Displaced Persons Act of 1948 - 214,000 immigrants from Europe allowed outside of the number restrictions
- See It Now - CBS
- 20 Oct 1953 - Ed Murrow did a broadcast story on the Red Scare
- The changing quality of life
- Post-WWII affluence
- Production increase: $213 billion (1945) to $284 billion (1950)
- Truman took over the railways - strikers were to be drafted into the army
- "baby boom"
- nappy sales - $32 million (1947) to $50 million (1957)
- "Fair Deal"
- Gov. spending rose
- 1949 - National Housing Act - building of 810,000 low-income housing units
- OPA - Office of Price Administration closed in 1946
- Farmers and businesses exploited this and prices rose by 25% in the following two week
- 1946 Employment Act
- Set up the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA)
- President to give a strategy report to a Joint Economic Committee of the House of Representatives and the Senate after each federal budget
- Gov. careful to keep taxes low and buying on credit meant that inflation didn't damp down spending in the 1950s
- Fed put control on the money supply to keep inflation low
- TV - 9% of homes had on (1950) only get reception in areas in New York
- 1948 - 16 broadcasting stations - 1954 - 354
- TV = 15 cm X 12 cm
- COCA COLA - $55.7 million before tax (1950)
- Increasing consumerism
- Start of suburban living
- Increasing appliances and electronics becoming readily available
- Post-WWII affluence
- 1945-53
- REPUBLICAN
- The changing political environment
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