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Readjustment after WWII

Readjustment after WWII. The Family Rising Divorce rate. Why? 8 million worked during war How to be a good wife. Readjustment after WWII. The Economy US Gov’t cancelled wartime orders $35 billion 1 million workers laid off 10 days after Jap. surrender War ends Aug 1945

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Readjustment after WWII

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  1. Readjustment after WWII • The Family • Rising Divorce rate. Why? • 8 million worked during war • How to be a good wife

  2. Readjustment after WWII • The Economy • US Gov’t cancelled wartime orders • $35 billion • 1 million workers laid off 10 days after Jap. surrender • War ends Aug 1945 • By May 1946, 3 million are unemployed • Prices skyrocket • Not enough consumer goods (people wait on line) • Coffee, sugar, beans • 2 years before prices stabalize

  3. Readjustment after WWII • Recovery • $135 billion in savings • What did they do with the $$$? • Cold War helped economy • How? • What were we spending money on? • Marshall Plan • Foreign market for US goods

  4. Television • 1951: $ 795 • 2011: $6790

  5. Economic Challenges • Truman had to restore economy • Strikes • High prices, lower wages • 4.5 million workers • Threatened to draft them • You can make soldiers do anything • Went to Congress for permission • Unions gave in before speech was over

  6. Economic Challenges • Truman = Democrat • Republicans asked: “Had Enough”? • 1946: R. controlls Senate & HOR • Cancels a lot of pro-labor laws

  7. Civil Rights • African-Americans still unequal • Congress won’t act • Truman signs executive orders • Integrates the military • Ends discovery in hiring gov’t employees

  8. Election of 1948 Rep- Gov. Thomas Dewey (NY) Liberal Republican Dem- Pres. H. Truman (Mo) Civil Rights/ Fair Deal Prog- Sec. Henry Wallace Civil Rights/ Socialism Dixiecrats- Gov. Strom Thurmond (SC) State’s Rights Pro segregation

  9. Election of 1948 Harry Truman (D-MO) Tomas Dewey (R-NY

  10. Election of 1948 Truman (D)- 49.6%/ 303 Dewey (R)- 45.1%/ 189 Thurmond (Dixie)- 2.4%/ 39 Wallace (P)- 2.4%/ 0

  11. Republicans • 1951: Truman is unliked • Korean War • McCarthyism • Doesn’t run for re-election • Reps talk about rise of Communism in China & E. Europe • Nominate Dwight D. Eisenhower • “I Like Ike”

  12. Republicans • Eisenhower wins • Middle of the road • Conservative when it comes to money • Liberal when it comes to human beings • Raised minimum wage • Extended Social Security • Increased $ for public housing • Interstate highways • Won re-election in 1956

  13. The Other America Who am I talking about?

  14. Urban Poor 25% living below poverty level Mostly minorities African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans

  15. White Flight • Middle Class whites moved to suburbs • Took businesses & money • Isolated from other races • Rural poor African Americans moved to cities • $ in cities decreased • Less taxes • Poor schools, fire, police, transportation • People in suburbs refused to believe poverty could exist in USA

  16. Urban Renewal • Provide decent home & job to every family • Tear down old buildings • Replace w/ low income housing • Created new Cabinet position • Housing & Urban Development • Lots of housing replaced by parks, stadiums, roads, malls, parking lots • What is the problem here?

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