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Post war economic issues G.I.s finding jobs and housing, fears of economic problems, but war had increased income, everyone had savings accounts & war bonds 1946 Congressional Elections "Had enough?" Repubs win House and Senate. Robert Taft leads Repubs. Taft-Hartley Act to check union power. outlaws closed shop, lets states pass right-to-work (no union requirement), outlaws other unions joining boycotts, president has power to invoke 80 day cool-off period before strikes. "operation Dixie" This was aimed at unionizing textile workers & steelworkers, but failed due to fears of racial mixing. Plus, women were hard to organize, unionization to the South Employment Act Made it government policy "to promote maximum employment, production, and purchasing power.". Created a three-member Council of Economic Advisers to provide the president with the data and recommendations to make policy a reality. GI Bill of Rights Also known as Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 gave money to veternas to study in colleges, universities, gave medical treatment, loans to buy a house or farm or start a new business Long Economic Boom ... move to the sunbelt air conditioning, military posts Levittowns planned suburban communities of cheap, mass-produced houses built by WIlliam Levitt all over the country during the 1950's "white flight" working and middle-class white people move away from racial-minority suburbs or inner-city neighborhoods to white suburbs and exurbs baby boom An increase in population by almost 30 million people. This spurred a growth in suburbs and three to four children families. Dr. Spock Was a 1950's doctor who told the whole baby boom generation how to raise their kids. He also said that raising them was more important and rewarding than extra $ would be. Baruch plan In 1946, Bernard Baruch presented an American plan to control and eventually outlaw nuclear weapons. The plan called for United Nations control of nuclear weapons in three stages before the United States gave up its stockpile. Soviet insistence on immediate nuclear disarmament without inspection doomed the Baruch Plan and led to a nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Nuremburg Trials A series fo trials which charged high ranking German leaders with war crimes and "crimes against humanity." German occupation The Grand Alliance and France said that Germany needed to be de-Nazified so they divided Germany into four occupation zones. Soviets got the most amount of land since they lost the most amount of men. 3-5 years was predicted time of occupation. The Cold War refers to the period following WWII until the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s.This was a period when much of the world was divided by the communist/non-communist battle for military and political superiority. While the USA and the USSR were unquestionably the world's two superpowers, they avoided direct military conflict. Instead, they sought to bring other countries into their fold. the "iron curtain" speech Churchill gives a speech about the iron curtain dividing Europe George Kennan He was an American diplomat and ambassador best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. "containment" American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world Truman Doctrine President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology Reinhold Niebuhr Influential liberal protestant clergyman who crusaded against what he percieved as the drift away from Christian foundations for over five decades after WWI.He was vehemently against fascism, communism, and pacifism, and divided the world into "children of light" and "children of darkness." Marshall Plan A plan that the US came up with to revive war-torn economies of Europe. This plan offered $13 billion in aid to western and Southern Europe. coup in Czechoslovakia demonstrates most clearly how the Soviets went against Stalin's wartime promise and imposed communism on an unwilling nation. National Security Act Passed in 1947 in response to perceived threats from the Soviet Union after WWII. It established the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Security Council. National Security Council a committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security CIA an independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest "Voice of America" 1948; This government agency was created to make radio (and later TV) broadcasts of news and entertainment into foreign countries, especially into those controlled by communists. Selective Service System an independent federal agency that administers compulsory military service founding of Israel 1922, palistein invited in jews. 1937- revised and said no more could come in. arabs don't want the jews. eventually in 1947 UN parts israel and gives land to jews Berlin Airlift Joint effort by the US and Britian to fly food and supplies into W Berlin after the Soviet blocked off all ground routes into the city Federal Republic of Germany Eventual name of postwar West Germany; created by the merging of the zones of occupation held by France, Britain, and the United States. German Democratic Republic German Federal Republic was established by the Western powers in 1949, then a month later the Democratic Republic was made by USSR