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1 Post-WWII American Society
We Didn’t Start the Fire Rock Around the Clock Mack the Knife I’ve Got You Under my Skin

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3 Reconversion Positives Negatives No economic collapse after WWII
Americans had saved wages during war when their were no consumer goods $6 billion tax cut GI Bill provided education & economic assistance to veterans Inflation of 15% annually Labor strikes (UAW, AFL, UMW) –wages didn’t keep pace w/inflation Minorities & women replaced, but most wanted to keep working Move to service work (domestic & pink collar jobs) Reconversion

4 Truman’s domestic agenda
Fair Deal Expansion of SS benefits Raise minimum wage Universal Healthcare Fair Employment Practices Act (FEPA)* Public housing St. Lawrence Seaway Nationalization of atomic energy Republicans control Congress Defeated most measures Passed Taft-Hartley Act Right to work states ‘closed shops’ made illegal (bosses only hiring unionized workers) Election of 1948 Democrats split over civil rights Dixiecrats –southern whites Surprise win lets Truman revive Fair Deal SS expansion 75 cent minimum wage National Housing Act Truman’s domestic agenda

5 Crusade against subversion
Communism was NOT an imagined enemy of the 1950s Eastern Europe, Korea, Maoist Revolution Ethel & Julius Rosenberg Convicted & put to death for passing atomic weapon plan to the Soviets House un-American Activities Committee ‘Hollywood Ten’ Alger Hiss Congressman Richard M. Nixon Crusade against subversion

6 2nd Red Scare McCarran Internal Security Act, 1950 McCarthyism
All communist orgs must register w/Feds J.Edgar Hoover & FBI investigate thousands of Federal employees McCarthyism Senator Eugene McCarthy + asst. Roy Cohn, 1950 Democrats accused of ‘20 years of treason’ Public hearings never produced evidence 2nd Red Scare

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