Post WW II and the 1950’s Domestic Affairs

• U. S. MilitaryI) Demobilizes armed forcesII) GI Bill of Rights• Ended price control and rationing policies• Housing shortage led to suburb

developments - William Levitt – Started suburban developments 1947 completed in 1951 called Levittown in NY, Nassau County

Levittown, NY 1st Suburb

Creation of the United Nations• Charter for the United Nations adopted at the

San Francisco Conference in April, 1945 –Located in New York City

• Structure of the United Nations:I) General AssemblyII) Security CouncilIII) Secretary General of the U. N.

Events that led to the Cold War Period

• Conflict with Germany and Berlin• Conflict of governments in Eastern Europe –

leads to “IRON Curtain” or “Satellite Nations”• Exception Yugoslavia- Marshal Tito (Josip Broz)• Soviet Aid to Chinese Communist (Mao Zedong)• Disagreement in Korea• Issues with Soviets role in post war Japan• Problems in southern Europe and Western Asia (Turkey

&Iran)

The “Iron Curtain”

Beginning of the Cold War

• Policy of Containment – prevent the spread of communism in the world! U.S. policies

I) Truman DoctrineII) Marshall PlanIII) NATOIV) SEATOV) Eisenhower Doctrine

Cold War Continued• Berlin Blockade – Berlin airlift • USSR explodes atomic bomb in 1949• Korean War – Communist N. Korea invades S. Korea – United Nations helps S. Korea – Chinese

help N. Korea - 1950-1953 – settled dispute along 38° parallel.

* Hungarian Revolt 1956 * problems in the middle east – 1) Suez Canal Crisis 2)

Lebanon 1958* 1954 United States provides a small amount of aid

to South Vietnam – begins our involvement!

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Domestic Affairs – Post WW II -1959

• Election of 1948 – Harry Truman v. Tom Dewey

Domestic Policies – Desegregating America

• Desegregation Begins – Truman issues an Executive Order to desegregate the military!

• Jackie Robinson becomes the first Black American to play major league baseball – Larry Doby first Black American to play in the American League with the “Tribe”

Domestic Events under Truman

• Senator Joseph McCarthy – “Communist Witch Hunt.” Ends with Army-McCarthy hearings and Censured by U.S. Senate.

• Rosenberg Trial – Julius And Ethel –accused of selling atomic bomb secrets (atomic espionage) to the USSR – 1950 –convicted and executed by the electric chair in 1953.

• First H-Bomb tested 1952

Eisenhower Election of 1952 & 1956“I like Ike”

Domestic Policies under “IKE”I) Federal Highway Act – purposeII) Creation of NASA (civilian organization) 1958 Reaction to Sputnik

(soviets) in 1957 - U.S. countered with Telstar launched in 1960 (I & II)III) Beginning of Civil Rights Movement: a) Brown v. Board of Education (Topeka Kansas) b) Montgomery Bus Boycott – Rosa Parks/ Martin Luther King c) Little Rock Nine – integration Riots d) Strom Thurmond – Senator from South Carolina opposed civil rights

movement.IV) Statehood 1959: Alaska – 49th Hawaii – 50th V) Passing of the 22nd Amendment – two term limit for the President

Cultural Advancements & Changes during post WW II & 1950’s

• Beginning of Rock and roll – Alan Freed – Elvis Presley

• Vaccine for Polio developed by Jonas Salk• Bomb Shelters• Drive in movies and Motels• Beatniks – Jack Kerouac & Allen Ginsberg • Playboy magazine – Hugh Hefner• Televisions – 1948-49 explodes on the scene

in the United States Einstein a BIG fan!