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Demobilization: Labor, The Baby Boom & Truman’s Fair Deal

Demobilization: Labor, The Baby Boom & Truman’s Fair Deal. US History: Spiconardi . Demobilization. The Armed Services Military reduced from 12 million members to 1.5 Questions: What to do with 10.5 million discharged men? What to do with the wartime factories?. Demobilization.

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Demobilization: Labor, The Baby Boom & Truman’s Fair Deal

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  1. Demobilization: Labor, The Baby Boom & Truman’s Fair Deal US History: Spiconardi

  2. Demobilization • The Armed Services • Military reduced from 12 million members to 1.5 • Questions: • What to do with 10.5 million discharged men? • What to do with the wartime factories?

  3. Demobilization

  4. Servicemen’s Readjustment Act: The G.I. Bill of Rights • Considered last piece of New Deal Legislation • Created to prevent repeat of Bonus Army March • The G.I. Bill of Rights • Authorized billions of dollars to pay veterans’ benefits • College education • Medical treatment • Unemployment insurance • Home and business loans • Made it possible for more people to attend college or buy a home than ever before

  5. G.I. Bill

  6. G.I. Bill

  7. Fair Deal • Truman’s plan for social improvement • Goals • Promote full employment • A higher minimum wage • Housing assistance • Employment compensation for workers out of work • Most of the proposed legislation not passed by Congress

  8. Taft-Hartley Act • Wages could not keep up with inflation • Unions went on strike for higher wages • US became anti-union & Congress passes Taft-Hartley Act • President could delay a strike (80-days) if it threatened “national welfare” • Barred the “closed shop”  no longer had to belong to a union before being hired • “Right-to-work laws” Could take jobs & not belong to a union • Required union leaders to swear they were not communists

  9. National Military Establishment Act • In order to meet post-WWII international concerns (COLD WAR) two new federal agencies created • Department of Defense • Oversees all gov’t agencies relating to national security & the military

  10. National Military Establishment Act • Central Intelligence Agency • Obtain and analyze information about foreign governments, corporations, & persons • Use of propaganda to get others to decide in favor of the United States • Covert operations (espionage)

  11. The Baby Boom

  12. The Baby Boom • Largest population explosion in US history • No longer economic hardships of Great Depression, which limited family size • Men coming home from war (wink, wink)

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