apush truman domestic and foreign
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TRUMAN PRESIDENCY 1945-53
FOREIGN POLICY
Iron Curtain Germany divided,
Berlin Airlift Containment
George Kennan Domino Theory
Dean Acheson Truman Doctrine-
MILITARY AID! Greece, Turkey $400 m
Marshall Plan- $$$ AID!! $13 Billion
National Security Act NATO
Portugal, Britain, France, Italy, Norway, Turkey, Algeria…
Economic Aid CIA Deterrence
Develop atomic, hydrogen bombs
Cold War Begins Containment Strategy
TRUMAN DOMESTIC – FAIR DEAL FAILURES
Civil Rights Jackie Robinson 1947 BB Ralph Bunche – Nobel Peace Prize 1950 Gwendolyn Brooks – Poet, Chicago Defender U.S. Military desegregated – victory
Federal Healthcare Housing Act 1949 – 800,000 units for poor Education Aid denied Economy – salaries up 23%, costs up 36% Farm Aid denied
TRUMAN DOMESTIC
G.I. Bill Education and training Low interest loans VA Hospitals Unemployment pay $20
week Job assistance
Taft-Hartley Act Abolished “closed shop” NLRB stronger to prevent
unfair labor practice Exec could impose 80 day
cooling off period – emergency
Union leaders swear not communists
Walter – McCarren Act Ends a band on
immigration and citizenship for Asians and Japanese
Social Security extended to reach 10 million more people
Minimum wage increase .40 to .75 in 1948
Fair Deal Fair Deal continued
RED SCARE - MCCARTHYISM
House Un-American Activities Committee Senate internal subcommittee order citizens to
testify past/present associations Alger Hiss – Richard Nixon as CA congressman
goes after Hiss. 2 years in prison for perjury, accuser was Whittacker Chambers (CPUSA)
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg – accused by David & Ruth Green, spies of atomic secrets, convicted, and put to death of espionage in 1953