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Cold War and the Fair Deal

Cold War and the Fair Deal. I. The Cold War The Fair Deal III. Eisenhower IV. The Affluent Society V. A Segregated Society. FDR’s Funeral. “I feel as though the moon and all the stars and all the planets have fallen on me.” .

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Cold War and the Fair Deal

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  1. Cold War and the Fair Deal • I. The Cold War • The Fair Deal • III. Eisenhower • IV. The Affluent Society • V. A Segregated Society

  2. FDR’s Funeral

  3. “I feel as though the moon and all the stars and all the planets have fallen on me.”

  4. “This experience brought home to me not only that I had to know exactly where I was going but also that I had to know that my basic polices were being carried out. If I had read that order, as I should have, the incident would not have occurred. But the best time to learn that lesson was right at the beginning of my duties as President.”

  5. “The Buck Stops Here”

  6. Truman’s Major Challenges 1) The start of the Cold War. 2) Demobilizing the war economy. 3) Continuing the New Deal.

  7. II. Start of the Cold War

  8. Stalin and Truman at the Potsdam Conference

  9. The threat of Stalinism represented an ideological conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States

  10. National Security Act 1947

  11. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta

  12. National Security Advisor General James Jones

  13. Truman Doctrine “I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressures.”

  14. II. The Fair Deal

  15. Post War Government Involvement in the Economy 1) High defense spending 2) G.I. Bill of Rights 3) Employment Act of 1946 4) Expansion of New Deal economic programs

  16. President’s Committee on Civil Rights 1) Permanent Civil Rights Commission. 2) Federal Employment Protection Commission. 3) Anti-Lynching and Anti-Poll Tax Laws. 4) Strengthened Civil Rights Statutes.

  17. “If the segregation program of the president is enforced, the results of civil strife may be horrible beyond imagination. Lawlessness will be rampant. Chaos will prevail. Our streets will be unsafe. And there will be the greatest breakdown of law enforcement in the history of the nation.”

  18. “I want to tell you that there’s not enough troops in the army to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the Negro race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into out homes, and into our churches.” http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/54/Strom_Thurmond_1948_Speech_Clip.ogg

  19. “Our niggers is better off than most anybody's niggers, why, they got washing machines and some of ‘um even got televisions. I can't understand why they complaining.”

  20. Thurmond spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes in 1957 to filibuster Civil Rights legislation

  21. 2003

  22. Campaign Button for Henry Wallace of the Progressive Party

  23. The Fair Deal Agenda 1) Support of Farm Income 2) National Health Insurance 3) Expand Social Security 4) Civil Rights

  24. The Fair Deal “We have rejected the discredited theory that the fortunes of the nation should belong in the hands of a privileged few. Instead, we believe that our economic system should rest on a democratic foundation and that wealth should be created for the benefit of all. The recent election shows that the American people are in favor of this kind of society.”

  25. “Every segment of our population and every individual has a right to expect from his government a fair deal.”

  26. III. Dwight D. Eisenhower

  27. Trouble in Truman’s Second Term • Republican opposition to the Fair Deal. • Southern Democratic opposition to civil rights. • The Korean War.

  28. Dwight D. Eisenhower talking to soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division on June 5, 1944

  29. Dynamic Conservatism “Conservative when it comes to money and liberal when it comes to human beings.”

  30. Results of Dynamic Conservatism • Abolished the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. • Abandoned New Deal commitment to public electric power. • Instituted tax reductions resembling Republican program of the 1920s.

  31. “Should any political party attempt to abolish Social Security and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of the party again in our political history.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954

  32. Eisenhower Legitimatising the Legacy of the New Deal • Included more workers in Social Security. • Raised minimum wage from ¢75 to $1. • Increased expenditures for public health.

  33. Interstate Act of 1956 • Cost $26 billion. • Produced 42,500 miles of interstate highway

  34. Industrial Military Complex

  35. IV. The Affluent Society

  36. A Growing Economy

  37. An Affluent Society

  38. The average marriage age for men dropped to 22, for women to 20 • Women in the 1930s had an average of 2.4 children; their counterparts in the 1950s averaged 3.4

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