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Truman’s Domestic Policies

Truman’s Domestic Policies. LEGISLATION. Atomic Energy Act: Civilian control not military Employment Act Est. Council for Ec Advisors Taft-Hartley Act Repub attack on labor Congress overrode HT’s veto Committee on Civil Rights Leads to desegregation of armed forces and federal employment

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Truman’s Domestic Policies

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  1. Truman’s Domestic Policies

  2. LEGISLATION • Atomic Energy Act: • Civilian control not military • Employment Act • Est. Council for Ec Advisors • Taft-Hartley Act • Repub attack on labor • Congress overrode HT’s veto • Committee on Civil Rights • Leads to desegregation of armed forces and federal employment • Jackie Robinson

  3. ELECTION OF 1948 • Truman (D) • “Do Nothing Republican Congress” • Popularity from airlift, support of Israel, cold war fight • Dewey (R) • NY governor • Wallace (Pr) • FDR’s Sec of Commerce • Thurmond (Dixiecrat) • Racist

  4. FAIR DEAL • Extend the New Deal • Education, housing, insurance • Results: • Nat’l Housing Act • SSA expanded • Minimum wage $.40 to .$75 • Civil Rights leg blocked by S.

  5. LEGISLATION • Executive Order 9835 • Loyalty oath for fed employees • McCarren Internal Security Act • Communist organizations had to register • Immigration and Naturalization Act • Barred subversives from citizenship • 22nd Amendment: two-term limit for president

  6. HUAC • Rooting out subversives in Hollywood • Blacklisting, intimidation, peer pressure • Some actors helped the govt (Reagan, Disney) • Others protested (Bogart, Bacall, John Huston)

  7. SPIES! • Alger Hiss • Sentenced to 5 yrs for perjury in 1950; served 2 • Rosenbergs • Executed -1953 • First civilians executed for espionage in US hst

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