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aqa a level history – Truman latest examImpact of WW2 in America (4) - -Great Depression ended
-Women worked in jobs previously taken by men now at war - Double V campaign.
-America only manufacturer of goods as all European factories were bombed in
the war Monopoly on production. Sets up economic boom.
- New technology made USA leading distributer of products like microwave and
radios.
In 1945:
- 7% of population but 42% of income
- produced half worlds manufactured goods (57% of steel, 62% OF OIL, 80% cars)
- average per capita income nearly twice or prosperous nations like Canada
-1940s, unemployment never rose above 4 %
Criticisms of America (2) - - How can the country be 'free' when it discriminates
over its own citizens based solely on skin colour?
- holocaust stories appear and the public can draw links between segregation of
Jews and of African-Americans... Nazi Germany?
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Effects of Post War Prosperity (5) - - Suburbs and Levittowns created, white flight
as African-Americans migrated to northern cities and white people to suburbs.
- the baby boom of the 1950s as more families were financially stable.
- the construction of an interstate highway system
-increased consumerism (TV, Radio, music), helped by the emergence oft the
teenager, who could now stay in education and receive pocket money to spend in
their free time, so advertising is also created.
- the economy shifted from mainly manufacturing to more service jobs, (ex.
restaurants), and unemployment plummeted from 9.5 million in 1939 to 670k in
1945.
GI Bill features (4) - - subsidised and staggered the job market to prevent mass
unemployment
- veterans receive free university courses
- ex-soldiers also receive 100% mortgages
- more houses built for these soldiers which creates roads, suburbs and railways.
- 8 million benefitted
Negatives of America 1945 (5) STATS - - 1/3 lived in poverty
- 1/3 houses had no running water
-2/5 lacked flushing toilets
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