7% world population, 42% global income, 62% discovered oil, 50% global manufacturing production
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What was Truman seen as?
Compromise candidate
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How did the US economy grow in strength?
Sold arms and materials for rebuilding. Allies repaid money loaned in war, Lend lease program
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North
Politics, education, finance
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Midwest
Less populated, America relied on agriculture
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South
Traditional, segregated
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Yalta
Feb 1945, agreements to split Germany into 4, free elections in Eastern Europe
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Potsdam
July august 1945, Truman replaced FDR, free elections in Poland, German reparations agreed, atomic bomb kept secret
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Truman doctrine
US policy to help any country threatened with communist takeover
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Marshall plan
$17 billion aid
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Berlin Blockade
25th march 1948, Stalin blocked all transport routes in and out of Berlin. Airlift supplied 2.5 million people in West Berlin. Stalin stop 12th May 1949
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What gave American economy strength?
IMF and World bank, provide loans to developing countries, encourage trade. Bretton Woods, agreement 44 allies nations, all currencies linked to value of dollar
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Truman lost control of congress in mid elections 1946
But won election in 1948 and democrats regain congress
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Successes of domestic policy
Full employment act 1946, social security expanded to 1 million Americans 1950, minimum wage increase $0.75, housing act 1949, promised 810,000 houses for poor
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McCarthyism
McCarthy claimed to have list of 205 suspicious people in US government , worked with HUAC
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Southern civil rights group
NAACP, CORE
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Northern civil rights group
Nation of Islam, Urban League
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NAACP court cases
Sweat Vs Painter 1950
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Presidents Committee on Civil rights
To Secure these rights 1947, report criticised segregation. 1948 Truman tried to introduce anti lynching laws and voting laws, Congress no
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