Notes compiled from several resources compiled during my A Levels- helped my to gain an A*
Includes:
The United States in 1945 and the legacies of the world war: the powers of the presidency; the main political parties; post-war prosperity; regional, ethnic and social divisions
The USA as a Supe...
• Each state. First past the post – all votes go to the winning majority
• Votes on behalf of the people
Powerful:
• Sack anyone he wants (40 sacked) within reason
• Public relation
• Last to call a war
• Voice of the people
• Head of the army
• Influential – including Celebs
• Can veto congress
• Can appoint the government
• Appoint supreme court judges – 9 judges
Not Powerful:
• Can be impeached
• Can be overridden
• Only serves 2 terms
• Has to listen to legislation
• Can’t break laws but can delay them
• Laws through congress
,Us Revolution – George lll was seen as a tyrant
Preamble: prefect union
Legislative powers have the powers
20 amendments to the constitution
Midterm elections for the house of representatives
Senate is voted 1/3 at a time
,The American Dream: Reality and Illusion 1945-1980
• Perfection
• Land of opportunity – Workers could make a fortune – immigration control makes it
harder
• Fertile land: Set up farms, manifest destiny moving west
• Was not a dream for the Native Americans
• Standard of living higher – the gap closed.
• Rich and poor gap
• Land of the free compared to slavery in the south
Situation in 1945:
• 60% Americans for fireside chats by Roosevelt on the radio
• Locked up 100,000 Japanese Americans
Source Good War?
8.42 • War ended the depression
• Removed doubts about the capitalist economy
• Thriving industrial economy which led to prosperity and growth
• National products went up to $75 billion
• 15 million jobs created
• Industrial production increased by 200%
8.43 • End of war – USA had half the world's manufacturing capacity and generated
half of electricity. 2/3 of the Worlds gold stocks
• Largest merchant fleets
• Only nation with an atomic bomb
, • ‘Four Freedom’ of 1941
• Industrialists and politicians could see other gains to war
• USA had the least deaths to combat and the least civilian deaths
8.44 • Gross national products increased by 200 billion dollars from 1940-45
• Wages increased by 65 billion dollars
• Female unemployment's increased by 5 million
• Military increased by 12 million
• Federal Civilian employment increased by 2.5 million
• However, although jobs increased, national debts increased by 220 million
which is bad for the economy.
8.45 • Weren’t as patriotic in others wars like Korea and Vietnam
• War doesn’t bring peace, and in order for there to be peace there needs to be
peace
8.46 • Military forced used anywhere in the world
• Effected the mental states of people in the world war
• War murders people and it only attempts to make peace
8.47 • Focus on the destruction of the Jews and the suffering in concentration camps
• 1971- Dachau – a concentration camp in Germany
• Reveals the horrors of living through war and the idea and the lies of the
propaganda used to get people to go to war which would inevitably involve in
death
8.48 • Suggests the propaganda and deceit through joining the army, however the
source suggests the fun and adventures of war, and doesn’t necessarily focus
of the deaths and the prisoner they’re capturing
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