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Section 1 Truman Eisenhower
1) MAIN IDEA Even though prices were going up
and some workers were on strike, the
U.S. was able to move from being at
war to peace without the economy getting worse.
GI Bill-
Closed Shops
right-to-work laws -
union shops -
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This act provided money to veterans to help them
start businesses, buy homes, and go to college
._________________
Practice of forcing businesses to hire only union
members.

__________________
Work places where new workers were required to
join a union. __________________
Name the law that prohibited this practice.

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Define these terms in your own words Legislators
Inflation Recession
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Section 1 Trumans Program
MAIN IDEA President Truman wanted all Americans
to have a better life a Fair Deal ,even
though Congress would not pass many of his
proposals.

• Proposals included-
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• Election of 1948 - many thought Truman would
  lose.

Within the Democratic party 2 groups emerged
Dixocrat or States Rights Party nominated
Strom Thurmond for president.
Progressive Party - nominated Henry A. Wallace
for president.
Republicans - nominated Thomas Dewey.
Truman attacked Republican Congress as
Do-Nothing Congress, he narrowly won with
support of farmers, African-Americans, laborers.
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A group of Southern Democrats did not like
Trumans support of._________________
Thd Dixocrats nominated ________________ to be
their candidate for the presidency.

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Truman campaigned for the presidency by calling
the Congress the _________________________
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List some successes of The Fair Deal
1.______________________ 2.______________________
3.______________________
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Section 1 The Eisenhower Years 1952 1960
TIME FOR A CHANGE
MAIN IDEA New Republican winner, Dwight D.
Eisenhower cuts federal spending, supports
business, begins the Interstate Highway system
and extends some programs from the 1940s.
Middle of the Road described his political
beliefs
Dynamic Conservatism -
Federal Highway Act
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Section 1 The Eisenhower Years 1952 1960
TIME FOR A CHANGE

• Extended Social Security , unemployment
  compensation
• Raised minimum wage
• Gave money to farmers
• Creeping Socialism stopped practice of giving
  money to big institutions like banks and
  railroads in financial trouble
• Ended govt. price/rent controls, believed that
  business growth was very impt. to success of
  economy.

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The first houses ready for residents came in only
two styles, a rancher with a front door facing
the street and a variant with the main entry
facing the side of the house next door.
Eventually, Levitt added two-story Cape Cods and
colonials to style choices.
  One handy way of navigating Levittown was to do
it alphabetically. Every road in Golden Ridge,
for instance, began with a "G" Great Oak Road,
Geranium Road, Gable Hill Road.
Unlike Levittown, N.Y., which arose in an
improvised frenzy, Levittown, Pa., was planned
down to the last shrub and sewer grating. No
residential intersection had four corners. No
school child would ever have to cross a main
street to walk to school.
No two styles were ever built side by side.
Still, the rows of houses looked so stupefyingly
alike that even residents mixed them up. One
newcomer, Reuben Sussman, later recalled
telephoning for directions to his own house after
driving around and around the neighborhood
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Section 2 The Affluent Society
MAIN IDEA The U. S. in the 50s entered into a
time of opportunity with new jobs as white collar
workers,families growing and moving from cities
to to the suburbs.
Levittown
Baby Boom -
White Collar Job-
Blue Collar Worker -
Multinational Corporation -
Franchise -
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Section 2 The Affluent Society
MAIN IDEA A new way of doing business began
with the creation of the first computer. Doctors
made discoveries which helped fight many
illnesses.
ENIAC -
Transistor -
Cancer/Heart Disease -
Tuberculosis -
Polio (Jonas Salk )-
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Negative Stain of the Polio Virus
http//www.vaccineinformation.org/polio/photos.asp
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Effects of Polio
http//www.vaccineinformation.org/polio/photos.asp
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Child w/polio, Rhode Island Epidemic 1960
http//www.vaccineinformation.org/polio/photos.asp
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Patients with respiratory problems due to polio
were placed in iron lungs to help them breathe.
http//www.vaccineinformation.org/polio/photos.asp
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• Hospital Respiratory Ward in Los Angeles , 1952
• http//www.vaccineinformation.org/polio/photos.asp

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• Homework Due _____________
• Write 1 paragraph from the point of view of a
  teenager affected with polio and spending time in
  an iron lung.
• Minimum 5 sentences
• Correct punctuation/spelling
• Worth 10 points
• Printed or neat handwriting/printing
• Name, period ,date on top of page

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Multinational Corporation Franchise Business
Heart Disease Cancer Jonas Salk
Tuberculosis
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Section 2 The Affluent Society
MAIN IDEA The popularity of television led to
many changes in the movie and radio industries.
By late 1950s more than 80 of families
had at least 1 TV

• Comedy
• Action/Adventure
• Variety Entertainment
• News
• Sports

Cinemascope -
Radio responds - News, weather, sports,
talk shows
Number of radio stations doubled between 1948
1957 importance of
automobile.
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Section 2 The Affluent Society
MAIN IDEA Young people developed their own
popular culture based on rock n roll music and
literature of the beat movement
Rock n Roll -
African-American Entertainers Add some pics

• Alan Freed -

• King of Rock n Roll

Generation Gap
Beat Movement -

• Jack Kerouac

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Section 3 The Other Side of American Life
MAIN IDEA Even though much of the U.S. was
doing well, there were other groups of U.S.
citizens that were very poor and living in
poverty.
Poverty Line -
Michael Harrington (author)

• Poor Included
• Elderly
• Single Mothers
• Puerto Rican/Mexican Immigrants
• Rural Americans (all races)
• Inner City Residents

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Section 3 The Other Side of American Life
Decline of the Inner City
Urban Renewal
African Americans
Lorraine Hansberry - writer
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Hispanics
Bracero Program
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Native Americans
Termination Policy
Appalachia
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Section 3 The Other Side of American Life
MAIN IDEA Juvenile crime rates rose during the
1950s , problems in education emerged as baby
boomers began school.
Juvenile Delinquency -

• Experts blamed
• TV
• Movies
• Comic books
• Racism
• Busy parents
• Divorce rate
• Lack of religion
• Anxiety over military draft

Parents focused on education as a solution

• New schools
• Emphasis on math/science influenced by Sputnik I