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