Truman's Domestic Policies
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- Truman's Domestic Policies
- Inflation and Strikes
- GI Bill 1944 prevented many soldiers being unemployed
- Threat of unemployment after WW1
- Inflation hit 25% in 1945 - 1946
- Strikes 1946 - 800,000 steelworkers and 400,000 miners
- Taft-Hartley Act 1947
- Truman failed to steer a middle ground between employers and employees
- Workers got wage deals of 19% - matched the rate of inflation but didn't exceed price rises
- Poor Relations with Congress
- Congress felt that presidential power had increased too much
- Conservative southern democrats saw T as too liberal
- Truman's Fair Deal was unpopular in Congress
- It wasn't very successful
- Full Employment Act 1946
- Social Security extended to 1 million people
- Congress didn't want T to gain more power
- Congress rejected many of the things proposed in the Fair Deal
- T vetoed 250 congressional bills and Congress overrode 12 of his vetoes
- McCarthyism
- Caused widespread panic
- HUAC - set up in the 1930s but became big in 1947
- Caused trouble in the entertainment industry
- USSR nuclear capability and the loss of china
- Spies in gov caused panic - Alger Hiss and Julius and Ethel Rosenburg
- T made panic worse - he ordered an investigation into the State Dept
- 1950 - speech by T - McCarthy "was the best asset that the Kremlin could have"
- Issues within the Democratic Party
- Liberal democrats - south - T was too liberal with civil rights and unions
- 1948 election - Dem. Party = split between Dewey and Truman
- This meant that the Dem Party wasn't very strong
- Dixiecrats
- Civil Rights
- Many southern democrats were against civil rights
- De-jure vs, De-facto segregation
- Civil rights movements started to develop
- NAACP membership went from 50,000 to 450,000 during the war
- CORE established in 1942
- Supreme Court cases eg. Morgan vs. Virginia (transport)
- Caused disagreement in gov and with the public
- Inflation and Strikes
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