Reconversion

1
Reconversion

• Post WWI Experience
• Bring em Home
• Post War Depression
• The Economy
• Prosperity defined

2
1948 Election

• Trumans State of Union Message
• Southern Dixiecrat response
• Had Enough v. Do Nothing
• Dewey Wins?
• Upset

3
The Fair Deal

• Role of the National Government?
• Social Security Minimum Wage
• National Health Care
• Education
• Housing and slum clearance
• Other realms

4
Struggle for Equality

• Double Victory and WWII
• A. Philip Randolphs Challenge
• Wars Experience
• Jackie Robinsons Impact
• Trumans Initiative
• UN and Human Rights Commission
• Cultural Achievements

5
NAACP and the Courts

• Courts as an Ally
• Housing, Education, Voting
• Sweatt v. Painter
• Thurgood Marshall and Howard
• The Brown Case
• Warren Court
• All Deliberate Speed

6
The Korean War

• Source of the Conflict
• Pusan and Inchon
• MacArthur
• Quagmire
• 1952 Election
• Eisenhower

7
Wars of Liberation

• Post War in Third World
• African Continent
• Asia
• Latin American
• National Self Determination
• Cold War

8
Eisenhower and The Cold War

• Containment v. Brinkmanship
• Hysteria of Red Scare
• The Atomic Age
• China and Korea
• Vietnam and France
• Dienbienphu
• Geneva Accords and S. Vietnam

9
The CIA and Covert Operations

• Iran and The Shah
• Iranians and Mossadig
• Geo-Political Significance
• Destabilization
• U.S.-Iranian Relations, 1953-79