Chapter 13: Postwar Confidence and Anxiety

1. Chapter 13: Postwar Confidence and Anxiety • Demobilization – decreasing the man power in the military by allowing service men and women to return home • GI Bill of Rights – Federal law that granted benefits to veteran’s • A year of unemployment benefits if they could not find a job • Financial aid for college • Government loans for building and starting businesses • Fair Deal– Truman’s legislative program that would strengthen existing New Deal programs and establish new programs, such as national health insurance. • Fail!Congress has had enough of reforming.

2. Chapter 13: Postwar Confidence and Anxiety • Interstate Highway Act • $$$ to build 41,000 miles of highway consisting of multilane expressways that would connect the nation’s major cities • Biggest public works expenditure in history • Modeled after the German Autobahn that Hitler built • Ike’s plan for rapid mobilization in times of international crisis. • In 1990, became known as the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways

5. Chapter 13: Postwar Confidence and Anxiety • Sunbelt– Name given to southern and western states during the migration of the U.S population from eastern and northern cities • Houston, TX - Benefited from boom in petrochemical and aerospace business • Migration had a heavy impact on the shift of representative power in Congress • California and Texas are now players in the Electoral College game

6. Chapter 13: Postwar Confidence and Anxiety

7. Chapter 13: Postwar Confidence and Anxiety • Multinational Corporation- Companies that produced and sold their goods and services all over the world and established branches abroad. • General Motors, General Electric, International Business Machines, Coca-Cola • Consumerism – large-scale buying, most of it on credit • Median Family Income– Average family income • Nuclear Family– A household consisting of a mother and a father and their children • I’m Done! Here endith the lesson!