APUSH Chapter 29 Part 4 Flashcards
The GI Bill 1944
Unemployment benefits ($20 /wk)
$ for education
$16 billion loans from VA for homes funds
Spurs period of economic growth in US
Election of 1948
Republicans win control of congress in 1946
Criticize high taxes under Truman
Nominate Thomas Dewey (gov NY)
Democrats split over segregation
-southern Dixiecrats hold separate convention
-nominate strom thummond on states’ rights party ticket
Democrats vote split 3 days
Defeat seems inevitable for Truman
Results shock nation when Truman wins
African Americans, farmers vote
Democrats also take back congress
The Fair Deal (1948)
Truman’s domestic plan
Improved housing, employment, minimum wage, raises, new TVa’s, extension of social security
Sounds familiar?
Fear of nuclear Armageddon
USSR- Stalin, Khrushchev
US-Truman, Eisenhower
The race for the H bomb
Soviets test 1st atomic bomb 1949
Truman wants to outpace soviets in nuclear power
Develop H bomb (1000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb)
Oppenheimer opposed–) approaches genocide
US 1st test 1952, USSR 1953
Brinkmanship
Willingness to go t the brink of war
Leads to a massive arms race
Both sides test and stockpile bombs, ICBMs
The arms race
Nuclear proliferation
Both nations spend growing % of their budget on nuclear weapons
Sputnik
Soviet satellite, oct 1957
Caused fear in US
Fear of nuclear war
Air raid drills
CONELRAD
bomb shelters
Fallout shelters
