1. Demobilization: Labor, The Baby Boom & Truman’s Fair Deal US History: Spiconardi

2. Demobilization  The Armed Services Military reduced from 12 million members to 1.5 Questions:  What to do with 10.5 million discharged men?  What to do with the wartime factories?

3. Demobilization

4. Servicemen’s Readjustment Act: The G.I. Bill of Rights  Considered last piece of New Deal Legislation  Created to prevent repeat of Bonus Army March  The G.I. Bill of Rights Authorized billions of dollars to pay veterans’ benefits  College education  Medical treatment  Unemployment insurance  Home and business loans Made it possible for more people to attend college or buy a home than ever before

5. G.I. Bill

7. Fair Deal  Truman’s plan for social improvement Goals  Promote full employment  A higher minimum wage  Housing assistance  Employment compensation for workers out of work Most of the proposed legislation not passed by Congress

8. Taft-Hartley Act  Wages could not keep up with inflation  Unions went on strike for higher wages  US became anti-union & Congress passes Taft-Hartley Act President could delay a strike (80-days) if it threatened “national welfare” Barred the “closed shop”  no longer had to belong to a union before being hired “Right-to-work laws”  Could take jobs & not belong to a union Required union leaders to swear they were not communists

10. National Military Establishment Act  In order to meet post-WWII international concerns (COLD WAR) two new federal agencies created Department of Defense  Oversees all gov’t agencies relating to national security & the military

11. National Military Establishment Act Central Intelligence Agency  Obtain and analyze information about foreign governments, corporations, & persons  Use of propaganda to get others to decide in favor of the United States  Covert operations (espionage)

12. The Baby Boom

13.  Largest population explosion in US history No longer economic hardships of Great Depression, which limited family size Men coming home from war (wink, wink)