Ch.27 Sec1
EQ: WHAT ISSUES
WERE PRESENT IN
POST WORLD WAR II
U.S.?
Adjustment after the War
 G.I. Bill of Rights
 Suburbs
 Levittown
 150 houses produced a week
Suburbs
1/3 of Americans in suburbs
k 1 story high
k 12’x19’ living room
k 2 bedrooms
k tiled bathroom
k garage
k small backyard
k front lawn
“Normal” families shown on TV
The Donna
Reed Show
1958 -1966
Father
knows
best 19541958
Leave it to
Beaver
1957-1963
Ozzie and
Harriet
19521966
Postwar Economic Fears
 Government cancelled war contracts
 3million people seeking work + soldiers
 Inflation
Postwar cont…
 RECOVERY
 People wanted things they had held off on buying for a long
time
 Economic BOOM!
President Harry S. Truman 1945 - 1952
 Strikes
 1946 mid-term elections
 Republicans win majority in House and Senate
 Civil Rights
 Truman supported Civil Rights
Truman cont…
 1948 Election
 Supported Civil Rights
 Southern Democrats split and form Dixiecrats
 Truman wins in a huge upset
 Enacts his “Fair Deal” – extension of New Deal
Ch.26 Sec4
EQ: WHAT ISSUES DID
MINORITY AMERICANS
FACE DURING THE
1950’S?
Urban Poor
 White Flight
 What impact did White Flight have on inner cities?
 Urban Renewal
 What was this?
 What was its impact on poor?
Early Civil Rights
 Plessy v. Ferguson
 Brown v. Board of Education
 What was the significance of this case?
Early Civil Rights cont…
 Montgomery Bus Boycott
 Rosa Parks
 Martin Luther King Jr.
 ONLINE DISCUSSION POSTING!!!
 Early Civil Rights Movement