2. Postwar Society and Economy Some Generalizations Economy “Boom” Times Reasons Affluence Flaws Society Population Boom Greater Mobility Homogenization Social Change

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 Dem’s: Truman S. Dem’s: Thurmond Progressives: Wallace Rep’s: Dewey Results

6. 1948 Election

7. The Fair Deal Some Gains Minimum Wage Social Security Farm Subsidies Low Income Housing Liberalism Continued Some Losses 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 Int’l Court of Justice Emergence of the Cold War

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

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. 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 Dem’s: Stevenson Rep’s: Eisenhower Results