Truman 1945- 1952
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- Truman
- The US in 45 and legacies of WW2
- Roosevelt died in '45
- New Deal
- programmes working towards economy recovery
- Regional, Ethnic and Social Divisions
- regional
- North
- contained manufacturing industries
- 13% of pop moved to the north for jobs
- South
- agricultural
- white pop. dominated AAs
- North
- ethnic
- catholics and jews were persecuted
- POC were discriminated against
- 14M AAs
- 1.2M hispanics
- 350,000 Native Americans
- social
- variants in wealth
- GI Bill gave veterans better loans, mortgages and college education
- no. of homeowners grew
- college attenders went from 10% to 15%
- regional
- Political Parties
- Republicans
- big business
- rural voters
- preferred an unregulated economy
- Democrats
- main political party
- voters from the north
- immigrants: Irish Americans, African Americans
- Catholics
- Republicans
- Post- war prosperity
- America was the richest nation
- 7% of world's pop and 42% of world's income
- 62% of world's oil and 80% of cars
- produced 50% of world's manufactured goods
- The US in 45 and legacies of WW2
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