19 Domestic Politics 1945-1960: post-war reconstruction
AQA A-Level History 1K U
1945: Truman
threatened to
conscript
1950: Joseph
McCarthy
claimed had list
The Making of a Superpo
1865-1975
of 200
strikers
communists
working for the 1950: McCarran 1950s: Ike was passive and
1945: Full Employment Bill US state dept International conservative- didn't act against 196
(required govt to ensure jobs 1950s: 1.5 million Security Act McCarthyism but pleased when it fare
available and higher min wage, houses being (denied entry to ceased; supported supreme court his
public works programme) built each year in USA for any
A* Student Detailed Tim
action against segregation but mili
Levitt Towns communist) didn't do any other measures allia
Harry S Truman (1945-1953) Dwight D Eisenhower (1953-1961)
1947: Taft-Hartley
Act, anti-union laws
(republican control
1948: Election
policies: civil rights,
1949: Alger Hiss
trial, led to House
(This bundle contains 19
1950s:
Eisenhower's
1954: Brown v
Board of
1975)
workers' rights, Un-American policies: tax Education (court
of both houses and expand healthcare, Activities reduction, create measure but he
overrode Truman's contain communism Committee Dept of health, did desegregate
veto)
This is a
prominence education, the state DC by
welfare; build exec order)
1948: Election, Truman beats Thomas Dewey
1948: Truman's exec order interstate
(R), Strom Thurmond (against civil rights) and
to desegregate armed highways, raise
Henry Wallace (Progressive
min wage, Atomic
preview
forces, Civil Rights
1947-51: 1,200 sacked and Committee recommended Energy Act (to
6,000 resigned after loyalty anti-lynching laws but never encourage
reviews of federal made it through congress peaceful use of
employees weapons)
AQA A-Level History 1K U
1945: Truman
threatened to
conscript
1950: Joseph
McCarthy
claimed had list
The Making of a Superpo
1865-1975
of 200
strikers
communists
working for the 1950: McCarran 1950s: Ike was passive and
1945: Full Employment Bill US state dept International conservative- didn't act against 196
(required govt to ensure jobs 1950s: 1.5 million Security Act McCarthyism but pleased when it fare
available and higher min wage, houses being (denied entry to ceased; supported supreme court his
public works programme) built each year in USA for any
A* Student Detailed Tim
action against segregation but mili
Levitt Towns communist) didn't do any other measures allia
Harry S Truman (1945-1953) Dwight D Eisenhower (1953-1961)
1947: Taft-Hartley
Act, anti-union laws
(republican control
1948: Election
policies: civil rights,
1949: Alger Hiss
trial, led to House
(This bundle contains 19
1950s:
Eisenhower's
1954: Brown v
Board of
1975)
workers' rights, Un-American policies: tax Education (court
of both houses and expand healthcare, Activities reduction, create measure but he
overrode Truman's contain communism Committee Dept of health, did desegregate
veto)
This is a
prominence education, the state DC by
welfare; build exec order)
1948: Election, Truman beats Thomas Dewey
1948: Truman's exec order interstate
(R), Strom Thurmond (against civil rights) and
to desegregate armed highways, raise
Henry Wallace (Progressive
min wage, Atomic
preview
forces, Civil Rights
1947-51: 1,200 sacked and Committee recommended Energy Act (to
6,000 resigned after loyalty anti-lynching laws but never encourage
reviews of federal made it through congress peaceful use of
employees weapons)
