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27:1 Postwar America

27:1 Postwar America. 1944 GI Bill of Rights. Help assimilating 10 million soldiers back into civilian life. Job priority College Tuition & living expenses 1 year unemployment Federally guaranteed home loans. GI Bill of Rights. Federally backed loans for housing.

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27:1 Postwar America

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  1. 27:1 Postwar America

  2. 1944 GI Bill of Rights Help assimilating 10 million soldiers back into civilian life. • Job priority • College Tuition & living expenses • 1 year unemployment • Federally guaranteed home loans

  3. GI Bill of Rights Federally backed loans for housing Created a Social Revolution-Large numbers of “common people” could afford to buy their own homes.

  4. Levittowns • Surburbia • Mass Produced Houses • Large planned suburban communities

  5. GI Bill and Education • Free Tuition for college • Better paying jobs • Rise of middle class • Able to send their kids (baby boom generation) to college, etc.

  6. 1946 Elections • Republicans take over Congress • Truman tough on strikers • Shortage of consumer goods during WWII • inflation

  7. Truman supports Civil Rights • Wanted: anti lynching laws, no poll taxes, equal economic opportunity • Issued: Executive Order to integrate the military

  8. 1948 Presidential Election • Dixicrats • Southern democrats opposed to Truman’s emphasis on civil rights • Split the Deomcratic Party

  9. 1948 Presidential Election Truman wins despite division in Democratic Party.

  10. 1952 Presidential Elections • Problems for Democrats: • Stalemate in Korea • Labor unrest • Inflation • McCarthyism

  11. 1952 Presidential Election • “I like Ike” • Eisenhower’s Platform • Tough on communism • Shrink Federal government

  12. Nixon’s “Checker’s Speech” • Illegal campaign contributions? • Use of TV • 58 million viewers • Saved campaign

  13. Modern Republicanism • Middle of the road politics • Avoiding controversial issues

  14. Eisenhower and Civil Rights • 1954 Brown v. Board of Education overturns Plessey • 1955 Rosa Parks • Beginning of the Civil Rights Movement

  15. Jackie Robinson • Breaks the color barrier in Pro-sports • Brooklyn Dodgers • 1st African American inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame

  16. 27:2 American Dream in the Fifties

  17. Baby Boom1946-1964 • Spouses reunited • People had good jobs, houses, and money • Young couples married • Medical advances

  18. Salk Vaccine • Dr. Jonas Salk • Polio

  19. Dr. Spock Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care • Childrearing practices • 2nd best selling non-fiction book of all time?

  20. 50’s Women • Women Happy in Suburbia?? • Rise of Women’s Equality Movement (NOW)

  21. Ike’s Interstate Highway Act • Military Purpose • Increased mobility • Rise of Suburbia • Booming Car Industry

  22. Technological Wonders • Air conditioning • Increased urban development, more skyscrapers • Changed housing styles • Ranch • Lowered ceilings • Smaller windows • Eliminated “sleeping porches” • Rise of Sunbelt Cities

  23. Consumerism • New products • Planned obsolescence • Credit cards/installment plan • Advertising

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