The Truman Years

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The Crucial Decade 1945-1960
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Postwar Society and Economy
Some Generalizations
Society
Economy

• Population Boom
• Greater Mobility
• Homogenization
• Social Change

• Boom Times
• Reasons
• Affluence
• Flaws

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The Truman Years

• 1945-1953
• Domestic Policy
• Foreign Policy
• Successes
• Failures
• Evaluation?

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Truman and Domestic Policy

• Goals in Domestic Policy?
• The Twenty-One Points
• Reconversion Issues
• 1946 Midterm Elections
• The 80th Congress

• Taft-Hartley Act
• 22nd Amendment
• Presidential Succession Act

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The 1948 Election

• Issues
• Candidates

• Dems Truman
• S. Dems Thurmond
• Progressives Wallace
• Reps Dewey

• Results

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1948 Election
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The Fair Deal
Some Gains
Some Losses

• Minimum Wage
• Social Security
• Farm Subsidies
• Low Income Housing
• Liberalism Continued

• Health Care
• Aid to Education
• No Repeal of T-H
• Civil Rights Laws
• Decline of Liberalism

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Truman and Foreign Policy

• Goals in Foreign Policy?
• Immediate Postwar Issues

• Collective Security
• United Nations
• Secretariat
• General Assembly
• Security Council
• Intl Court of Justice

• Emergence of the Cold War

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The Cold War

• Definition?
• Origins?
• Who Started It?
• How to Fight It?

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Containment Policy

• What?
• Who?
• When?
• Where?
• How?
• Why?

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Major Developments

• The Kennan Letter
• National Security Act
• Greece and Turkey
• The Truman Doctrine
• The Marshall Plan
• Berlin Crisis
• NATO

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Postwar Europe
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Post-WWII Germany
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Containment in Asia

• Point Four Program
• Rebuilding Japan
• Fall of China
• The Soviet Bomb
• War in Korea

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War in Korea

• Limited War
• Strategy?
• Key Events?
• Results?

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The Domestic Cold War

• The Second Red Scare
• Loyalty Review Board
• HUAC
• The Hiss Case
• The Rosenbergs
• The McCarran Act
• McCarthyism

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Joseph McCarthy at Work
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1952 Election

• Issues
• Candidates

• Dems Stevenson
• Reps Eisenhower

• Results

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