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Chapter 26
Harry Truman and the Cold War
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Harry Truman 1945-1952
• Born in Lamar, Missouri
• Occupation: farmer, WW 1 soldier, small businessman, public official
• U.S. Senator 1935-45
• VP under FDR 1945 (only few weeks)
• 33rd President April 12, 1945-1952
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Trumanisms
• “If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog”
• “the buck stops here”
• “if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen
• “I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me”
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Harry Truman
• Democrat• Salary $75,000• Election of 1948
(defeated Thomas Dewey)
• Made some of the most crucial decisions in Am.history
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Truman’s Fair Deal
• Presented to Congress a 21 point program of progressive ideas to follow the traditions of the New Deal– National health care– Increase minimum wage (75 cents hour)– Fair employment practices act– Public housing /slum clearance projects
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Fair Deal
• Proposals were hindered by a Conservative Congress & Cold War foreign policy crises.
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American prosperity
• Income saved during WW2• Big demand for consumer goods (cars,
houses, etc)• Gov’t. road building projects (created
many jobs)• G.I. Bill (1944): gov’t backed, low
interest loans to veterans (bought homes, farms, businesses, college)
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Signs of Confidence
• Baby boom: postwar explosion in marriages and births
• 50 million babies born 1945-1960
• 1957: record number of births
• 2007: record broken 4,317,119
• Growth of suburbs (housing shortage) white middle class left cities
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Postwar problem in Am.
• Inflation: due to big demand for consumer goods
• Prices rose 6% in 1 month
• Prices rose 25% in 1 1/2 years
• 4.5 million workers went on strike in 1946 (RR, auto, steel, coal, etc.)
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Civil Rights Under Truman
• First modern President to use his powers to challenge racial discrimination– Issued Executive Order to desegregate all
branches of armed forces– Urged Congress to pass anti-lynching
laws, abolish poll tax, desegregate the schools
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Dixiecrat Party
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Dixiecrat Party (1948)
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Jackie Robinson
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The Cold War (1945-1960)
• A state of hostility between the U.S. and USSR, short of direct military conflict
• 1945-1991
• Two rival superpowers
• Dominated American foreign policy
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Major causes of Cold War
• Spread of communism after WW 2– Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania,
Czechoslovakia, E. Germany, Albania, Yugoslavia
• Soviets said they needed a “buffer zone” of satellite nations to prevent another invasion into Russia
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Winston Churchill
• 1946 speech: “an iron curtain has descended across the continent of Europe”
• Referring to the Soviet satellite nations
• Called for a democratic partnership to stop the spread of communism
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Causes for Cold War
• Competition over the Atomic Bomb– U.S. tested A-bomb July, 1945– USSR tested A-bomb Aug, 1949– Next came development of H-bomb– Short, medium, long range missiles
(ICBM’s)
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Battlefields for the Cold War
• Weapons race
• Space race– Oct. 1957 Sputnik (1st satellite to orbit
Earth)– Nov. 1957 Sputnik II (carried dog-Laika)– Feb. 1958 Explorer I (1st U.S. satellite to
orbit Earth)
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Battlefields for Cold War
• Sports: Olympics (Hockey, gymnastics, etc)– Miracle on Ice– Rocky 4
• Which country can produce the best athletes?
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Rocky 4
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Cold War = Fear
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/sfeature/panicquiz.html
• Take the Panic Quiz that was found in Collier’s Magazine in 1953.
• Don’t be a “victim of panic”
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Policy of Containment
• Truman’s new foreign policy to stop the spread of communism– 2 key ways:– Economic aid (to poor countries willing to
resist communism)– Military might (building democratic
alliances with countries in Europe)
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Economic Aid
• Truman Doctrine: 1947--asked Congress for 400 million to aid Greece and Turkey
• Marshall Plan: 1947--U.S. offered aid to Western Europe – 13 billion– 16 nations (most $ went to G.B., Fr., Italy,
W. Germany)
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Military Might
• NATO: 1949 (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)– 1st peacetime allliance in U.S. history– U.S., Canada, 10 Western European
nations formed a defense alliance – Each country would provide soldiers to
defend against communism
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Warsaw Pact
• Soviets’ response to NATO was the Warsaw Pact.
• Created a communist alliance of nations in Eastern Europe
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The United Nations
• Created at the end of WW2
• Ratified by Senate (82-2 vote)
• Structure:
• A) General Assembly
• B) Security Council
• C) Secretary General
• D) International Court of Justice
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Creation of CIA
• U.S. created the 1st permanent worldwide intelligence agency
• U.S. officially in the business of spying on other nations
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Cold War turns “HOT”
• Berlin Crisis: 1st direct challenge between the U.S. and USSR
• Germany divided into 4 zones of occupation after WW 2
• Berlin (capital) also divided into 4 zones
• Stalin wanted to unite Berlin under “Soviet occupation”
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