Post War America Domestic Reform

Post War America Domestic Reform

Domestic Reforms

• President Truman had the Fair Deal

• President Eisenhower had Domestic Conservatism

• President Kennedy had the New Frontier

Multiple Choice

This amendment states that no president can run for more then two terms in office.

• 1st

• 22nd

• 27th

• 5th

22nd amendment

was passed in 1951 and stated that no president could run for more then two terms.

Fair Deal

• this was the legislative goals that President Truman handed to Congress for his domestic program

• full employment: is federal spending designed to ensure jobs for the unemployed

• the Employment Act of 1946 created the Council of Economic advisors

• the Council of Economic advisors job is to advise the president on the economy

Fair Deal/ and other acts under Truman

• Atomic Energy Commission was created to give control of atomic energy over to civilian control instead of military control

• Taft Hartley act: permited states to passs the "right to work" laws banning the requirement of a union membership as a condition to hire someone

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Multiple Choice

this was created to advise the president on the economy

• Atomic energy commission

• council of economic advisors

• Taft Hartley Act

• National Security Act

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was not a candidate in he 1948 election?

• Truman

• Wallace

• Dewey

• Thurmond

Election of 1948

• Harry Truman Democrat

• Thomas Dewey Republican

• Strom Thurmond States rights party

the three things cogress accepted from the Fair deal

• raised the minimum wage

• extended social security programs

• gave more aid to farmers

Multiple Choice

the blue scare is the wide spread fear of communism

• true

• false

Anti-communism in America

• the widespread fear of communism is known as the Red Scare

• Alger Hiss was a former state department official who was charged with being a Soviet Spy

• the Hiss case launched the career of Richard Nixon

Anti communism in America

• Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of treason for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets during WWII and executed in 1953

• Joseph McCarthy is the senator most associated with the Red Scare

• the term McCarthyism was coined to describe his distortions and lies

Multiple Choice

Who did the republicans choose to be their candidate in 1952

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Adlai Stevenson

• Richard Nixon

• John Kennedy

Multiple Choice

Who is famous for saying " and so my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do - ask what you can do for your country"

• President Eisenhower

• President Roosevelt

• President Kennedy

• President Truman

Eisenhower and "Dynamic Conservatism"

• in 1952 Dwight Eisenhower the hero of the war in Europe was elected president over democrat candidate Adlai Stevenson

• Dwight Eisenhower called his philosophy Dynamic conservatism

• he described his philosophy as conservative when it comes to money and liberal when it comes to people

• President Eisenhower's most enduring project was the interstate highway system

Multiple Choice

President Eisenhower most enduring project was the ?

• dynamic conservatism

• interstate highway system

• ending the Korean war

• being a grandfather figure to the nation

Roosevelt and the New Frontier

• in 1960 John Kennedy defeated the republican candidate Richard Nixon and became the first Roman Catholic elected President

• President Kennedy used the television as a political tool for the first time in history

• President Kennedy's reform program was called the new frontier

• President Kennedy promoted a challenge to the American people to not only better America but the world

President Kennedy and the New Frontier

• President Kennedy appealed to Americans sense of patriotism this was demonstrated by his quote from his inaugural address "and so my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you -ask what you can do for your country"

• President Kennedy's most popular program was the Peace Corps

• President Kennedy started the Alliance for progress to combat the foothold communist had in Latin America

The 4 Aims of the Alliance for Progress

• aimed to increase income of Latin Americans

• decreasing illiteracy

• establishing democratic governments

• avoiding extremes of inflation and deflation of Latin American currencies

Multiple Choice

post war America brought unprecedented?

• economic depression

• economic prosperity

• emotional depression

• conflict

Multiple Choice

the biggest reason for economic prosperity was consumerism.

• True

• False: defense spending

• False: trade

Multiple Choice

Television celebrated the_________________

• American war heroes

• American middle class family

• American farmer

• American Company owner

Postwar America brought unprecedented economic prosperity

• the biggest reason for this was defense spending due to the Cold War

• another reason for this was that America was the major industrial supplier to the world since Europe and Japan were devastated

• After sacificing and saving through the war years many Americans went on a spending spree in postwar America

Diners Club

in 1950 the Diners club came out with the first credit card and by 1965 over 1 million people had one

Multiple Choice

who came out with the first credit card

• Discover

• Mastercard

• Diners club

• American Express

Marketing specialist appealed to these three things:

• self gratification

• social status

• materialism

Family

• "baby boom": a massive rise in the birth rate lasting until 1964

• television celebrated the American middle class family

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Multiple Choice

what gained momentum after WWII?

• NASCAR

• NFL

• Civil Rights Movement

• Imperialism

Civil rights movement

• the push for equal rights for all people gained momentum after WWII with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement

• civil rights are: basic rights that are granted because of one's citizenship and that the government is responsible for actively protecting from both governmental and individual influence

• President Truman was the first President of the 20th century to be concerned with African American civil rights

Civil Rights Movement

• the supreme court decision Brown v board of education Topeka, Kansas was the first major victory of the modern civil rights movement

• at Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas Pres. Eisenhower sent federal troops to escort 9 African Americans into school to start desegregation in Arkansas public schools

• the civil rights struggle in Montgomery, Alabama that gained national attention was the Montgomery bus boycott

Multiple Choice

post war America brought unprecedented?

• economic depression

• economic prosperity

• emotional depression

• conflict

Multiple Choice

the biggest reason for economic prosperity was consumerism.

• True

• False: defense spending

• False: trade

Multiple Choice

Television celebrated the_________________

• American war heroes

• American middle class family

• American farmer

• American Company owner

Multiple Select

what three things did marketing specialist appeal to?

• saving

• self-gratification

• not going into debt

• social status

• materialism

Multiple Choice

Who was the baptist preacher that became a popular and charismatic figure in the civil rights movement?

• Ghandi

• Harry Truman

• Joseph McCarthy

• Martin Luther King Jr.

Civil Rights movement

• Martin Luther King Jr. was the baptist pastor who became a popular and charismatic figure in the civil rights movement

• the Souther Christian Leadership Confernce was the organization that King and his associates established in 1957

• Dr. King Adimred the work of Ghandi who used non violent protest to free India from British control

Their appeal

King and the SCLC encouraged nonviolent marches and protest against laws that violated the civil rights of African Americans because of this their appeal was not just to the African American community but also to the middle class white citizen as well

King 's appeal was becasue he believed in order to achieve equal rights it must be done without resorting to violence

March on Washington

• over 200,000 black and white people gathered in the nations capitol for a huge civil rights protest

• at this march Dr. King gave his I have a dream speech

Religion

• after WWII Americans displayed a new interest in religion

• however some of these actions were motivated by a desire to contrast American religious values with those of our enemy

• the ecumenical movement became popular in post war America

• the goal of the ecumenical movement was to develop understanding and cooperation among Christian churches

• its long range objective was to unite Christian denominations intro a single church

Religion

• Conservative Christian groups also grew during the 40s and 50s

• these groups were known as fundamentalist or evangelicals

• Billy Graham was the first full time evangelist of the youth for Christ.

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