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APUSH unit 7 and 8 have fun, Summaries of History

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Post-war economy
โ–Age of prosperity- employment rates are great, amazing economy
โ–Employment Act of 1946- creates a consul of advice that works with the president about
production power
โ–Boom in consumerism
โ–Things like tv, and home appliances - improve people's lives
โ–Women are expected to go back to the kitchen
โ–GI bill- low-interest loans for veterans- excludes women and blacks
โ–Baby BOOM- overpopulation
โ–FHA- helps nonveterans buy a home
โ–TAFT-HARTLEY ACT
- Prohibits closed shops
- Passed over Trumans vetos
โ–Sunbelt growth (south)
- RUSTBELT DECLINE (midwest and northeast)
โ–Election of 1948
- Democrats split
- Dixiecrats-like new plan, hate civil reform
- Truman wins reelection promising FAIR DEAL--improves housing, full employment, high
minimum wage, better farm supports and extension of social security
1950 culture
โ–Age of conformity
- Anti-communism and the Red Scare
- Ideal American families shown on TV- two-parent, white, kids
- White flight- leave cities to go to suburbs
โ–GI bills make
- Rise of white-collar workers
- Increased college attendance
- Increased affluence
โ–Boom of consumerism
- Fast food
- Credit cards
- Television
- Advertising
โ–Generational gap
- Rock n roll
- Materialism
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Post-war economy

โ– Age of prosperity- employment rates are great, amazing economy โ– Employment Act of 1946- creates a consul of advice that works with the president about production power โ– Boom in consumerism โ– Things like tv, and home appliances - improve people's lives โ– Women are expected to go back to the kitchen โ– GI bill- low-interest loans for veterans- excludes women and blacks โ– Baby BOOM- overpopulation โ– FHA- helps nonveterans buy a home โ– TAFT-HARTLEY ACT

  • Prohibits closed shops
  • Passed over Trumans vetos โ– Sunbelt growth (south)
  • RUSTBELT DECLINE (midwest and northeast) โ– Election of 1948
  • Democrats split
  • Dixiecrats-like new plan, hate civil reform
  • Truman wins reelection promising FAIR DEAL--improves housing, full employment, high minimum wage, better farm supports and extension of social security

1950 culture

โ– Age of conformity

  • Anti-communism and the Red Scare
  • Ideal American families shown on TV- two-parent, white, kids
  • White flight- leave cities to go to suburbs โ– GI bills make
  • Rise of white-collar workers
  • Increased college attendance
  • Increased affluence โ– Boom of consumerism
  • Fast food
  • Credit cards
  • Television
  • Advertising โ– Generational gap
  • Rock n roll
  • Materialism

โ– Women

  • Went from fighting to working in the kitchen and the home
  • Gender stereotypes reemerge
  • Lay the foundation for the women's liberation movement

End of isolationism

โ– End of WW2- not isolationists- bc it allowed fascism to rise โ– Bretton woods conference

  • Create the framework for world trade
  • IMF- encourages world trade by regulating currency exchange rate
  • World Bank- promotes economic development and growth โ– Treaty of San Fran
  • Establishes UN
  • Reps from 50 countries
  • Security Council permanent members- US, Britain, USSR, France, and China, all can veto (can't achieve a lot bc they run under different government systems) โ– Germany split into 4 zones
  • Russia- east Germany
  • US, Britain and France- west Germany
  • Nuremberg trials- tried nazis- can't get rid of everyone who contributed โ– National security act
  • Department of Defense
  • National security council
  • CIA

Cold war abroad

โ– Iron curtain speech

  • Soviet is expanding control
  • Communists countries growing โ– Long telegram
  • Soviets want to create a socialist world order and the US needs to stop this โ– Truman doctrine
  • Contain communism
  • Give military aid to prevent a communist takeover (Greece and Turkey) โ– Marshal plan
  • Help rebuild Western Europe
  • To gain trust and prevent communism from spreading โ– Berlin blockade
  • Stalin cuts off Berlin in response to the above
  • AA mobilizing
  • Black voters โ– Selma march
  • March from Selma to Montgomery to get voting rights for blacks
  • Protesters are attacked by the police
  • Getting beaten by police broadcasted across the world
  • Embarrassing for the country and changes some views โ– MLK- non volient movemnet
  • If you don't fight back that will make people sympathetic to you โ– CORE (congress of racial equality)
  • Leads freedom rides
  • Freedom summer
  • March on Washington
  • Work with MLK โ– SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
  • To mobilize black churches in favor of civil rights โ– SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)
  • College students
  • Sit-ins โ– Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • No racial discrimationin public
  • Information in public schools
  • Employment discrimination is illegal โ– Voting Rights Act of 1965
  • Outlaws literacy tests and all pre-req tests to vote โ– Civil Rights Act of 1968
  • Ban on discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, or sex