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Postwar America
• Armed forces 12 mil 3 mil• Birthrate up (baby boom)• Consumer spending up
– High inflation
• Growth of big business– Lots of strikes
• More women in labor force• Growth of cities and suburbs
GI Bill 1944(Servicemen’s Readjustment Act)
• Education payments• Medical care• Job training• Unemployment pensions• Mortgage loans for veterans
Fair Deal(extension of New Deal)
• Expand Social Security benefits• Increase min. wage .40 .65/hr.• Full employment bill • End racial discrimination in housing• Public housing and slum clearance• Federal aid to education• National health insurance• Stronger Fair Employment Practices
Commission
Taft-Hartley Act 1947passed by Republican-controlled Congressover Truman’s veto
• No “closed shop”• 80-day “cooling off” period• President – power to stop strikes if harmful to
nation• Union officials required to sign noncommunist
oath• Unions not allowed to contribute to political
campaigns
National Housing Act 1949
• 6-year plan to build low-income housing
• Rent subsidies
Issues in the 1952 Election
• IKE: “clean up the mess in Washington” • IKE: “I shall go to Korea”• Rep: Democrats the party of
“Communism, Corruption, and Korea”• Dem: Nixon’s $18,000 slush fund
(Checkers speech)• Senator McCarthy• TV
HUAC 1947-1954
• Committee to investigate communist infiltration• Richard Nixon - Alger Hiss
- Whitaker
Chambers
1948/12/15 - Hiss indicted for perjury - 1st trial ends 1949/07 with hung jury, but 2nd trial convicts Hiss 1950/01/21 - sentenced to 5 years in prison, but serves 44 months in Lewisburg prison
1948/12/02 - Nixon finds pumpkin papers hidden in Chambers's Maryland garden - 5 rolls of microfilm (2 rolls contained photos of confidential government dispatches)
The Second Red Scare
• Julius and Ethel Rosenberg– charged with conspiracy to commit
espionage– tried under the Espionage Act of 1917– passing secrets of atomic bomb to
the Soviets– guilty verdict 1951– executed 1953
Army-McCarthy Hearings1954
• witch hunt for communists in U.S. government– defense department
• list of 205 “commies”• censured by Senate• “I have carried on my
part in the fight against communism as best I know how”
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_uTbVfDtgI&feature=related
What do we do now???
Blast from the Past
Sputnik
Explorer I
Laika
FranchisesA. Harland SandersB. Burger KingC. McDonald’s(Where is the First Mac’s?)
Interstate Highway Act of 1956
William J. Leavitt
The ‘Burbs
“The Dream”
America hits the Road!!!
(How many cars can you name?)
I [name][rank] in the Captain Video Space Academy do solemnly pledge to obey my mommy and daddy, be kind to dumb animals and old ladies in and out of space, not to tease my little brothers and sisters, and to brush my teeth twice a day and drink milk after every meal
. Captain Video Ranger Pledge
Sell, sell, sell!!!
The Twist
Chuck Berry
Jerry Lee Lewis
1943
To
1954
Golden Age ofBaseball
An American Institution
“What are little girls made of?”
Happy Family Dolls
dolls will allow girls to play out three generations of family
Midge
Alan Ryan
toddler son
September 19 2003
AVON's Spring Blossom Barbie
AVON's Spring Blossom Barbie
AVON's Spring Blossom Barbie
Pog Barbie
Sam's Club: Winter Fantasy
Sear's:Ribbons and Roses
Toys'r'Us: Got Milk? Barbie
Hills: Teddy Fun Barbie
Disney's Aladdin
Disney's Aladdin
Disney's The Seven Dwarves
Disney's Davy Crockett
Ike’s Modern Republicanism
• People first!• limited government interference in the affairs of states
and in private business• retained all of the social and economic legislation
developed during the New Deal and Fair Deal eras• expanded federal programs such as . . .
– Social Security– aid to education (NDEA, 1958)– public housing and slum clearance (Housing Act of 1955)– public health
• $1.00 minimum wage• expanded civil rights for blacks
– Brown v. Board of Education (1954, 1955)– Rosa Parks (1955-56)– Little Rock 9 (1957)– Civil Rights Act (1957) no literacy tests