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Title: The Truman Years


1
The Crucial Decade 1945-1960
2
Postwar Society and Economy
Some Generalizations
Society
Economy
  • Population Boom
  • Greater Mobility
  • Homogenization
  • Social Change
  • Boom Times
  • Reasons
  • Affluence
  • Flaws

3
The Truman Years
  • 1945-1953
  • Domestic Policy
  • Foreign Policy
  • Successes
  • Failures
  • Evaluation?

4
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

5
The 1948 Election
  • Issues
  • Candidates
  • Dems Truman
  • S. Dems Thurmond
  • Progressives Wallace
  • Reps Dewey
  • Results

6
1948 Election
7
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

8
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

9
The Cold War
  • Definition?
  • Origins?
  • Who Started It?
  • How to Fight It?

10
Containment Policy
  • What?
  • Who?
  • When?
  • Where?
  • How?
  • Why?

11
Major Developments
  • The Kennan Letter
  • National Security Act
  • Greece and Turkey
  • The Truman Doctrine
  • The Marshall Plan
  • Berlin Crisis
  • NATO

12
Postwar Europe
13
Post-WWII Germany
14
Containment in Asia
  • Point Four Program
  • Rebuilding Japan
  • Fall of China
  • The Soviet Bomb
  • War in Korea

15
War in Korea
  • Limited War
  • Strategy?
  • Key Events?
  • Results?

16
The Domestic Cold War
  • The Second Red Scare
  • Loyalty Review Board
  • HUAC
  • The Hiss Case
  • The Rosenbergs
  • The McCarran Act
  • McCarthyism

17
Joseph McCarthy at Work
18
1952 Election
  • Issues
  • Candidates
  • Dems Stevenson
  • Reps Eisenhower
  • Results

19
That's All, Folks... Study for the Test
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