In depth summaries of US presidencies between the years of 1945-74. All notes are created in alignment with the AQA component 2Q course 'The American Dream: reality and illusion'
1944 GI BILL Workers Strikes (1946) Housing Issues due
Potsdam Conference NSC 68
800 000 steelworkers in Jan to return of
7.5 million veterans given $20 Germany to be split in 4 zones Increase
soldiers and baby
billion between 1945-50 400 000 steelworkers in Apr Elections in liberated countries to $50 b
boom
$185 billion of war bonds matured Production for Korean War
went down by 1/3 Housing Act created Truman Doctrine created in 1947 Berlin Block
in 1949 Policy to contain Communism Stalin restri
Return of 12 million war veterans
-Insufficient Berlin due t
Truman demobilises 9 million Truman uses Executive -152 000 houses built Marshall Plan created in 1948 suspicious o
Order to maintain control – by 1952 Economic aid to European countries -Act of brin
Dealt with through the 1946 -spent over $13 billion
deemed unconstitutional -led to the
Employment Act School Lunch
Taft-Hartley Act created to limit strikes Act passed China falls to
US occupy Japan after
Council of Economic Advisors the US image
Korean War
created in 1946
25% inflation Domestic Policies Foreign Policies
Dixiecrats led by Strom Truman
Thurmond
Truman beats Dewey in 1948
election Civil Rights
Fair Deal created in 1949
Continue FDR’s socio-domestic
reforms Increase in political activism from AAs due to end of war Truman desegregates army with an
NAACP membership rose from 50 000 to 450 000 Executive Order
Minimum wage increases and Social
Security improves
Great Migration to North due to greater prospects President’s Committee to Secure These
Formation of HUAC due to White Flight in suburban areas created ghettoisation Rights created in 1946
threat of McCarthyism De jure segregation due to Jim Crow Laws Opposed by racist senators in Congress
Social Security Act created in 1950
500 government employees and 600 Soviets trying to attract colonised
teachers lost their jobs Plessy v Ferguson – separate but equal facilities countries who gained independence
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