P+D Problems Domestic+Fair Deal

Question 1

How high was unemployment in 1950?

Answer 1

5%

Question 2

When did Truman’s 21 point programme get presented to congress?

Answer 2

6th September 1945

Question 3

At what did Truman introduced the revised measures of the 21 point programme that got known as his fair deal?

Answer 3

The State of the Union Address

Question 4

When was the State of The Union Address at which point Truman announced the fair deal?

Answer 4

January 1949

Question 5

How much was the proposed Tax Increase as to pay for the policies suggested in the fair deal?

Answer 5

$4 Billion

Question 6

By 1953, how many Americans were employed?

Answer 6

62 Million

Question 7

By how much did Employment grow under Truman?

Answer 7

11 million

Question 8

How many Veterans took advantage of the GI Bill?

Answer 8

7.8 million

Question 9

How many homes a year did William J. Levitt make?

Answer 9

1.5 million

Question 10

What percentage of Americans were living in poverty in 1949?

Answer 10

33%

Question 11

What percentage of Americans were living in poverty in 1952?

Answer 11

28%

Question 12

In what year were 33% of Americans living in poverty?

Answer 12

1949

Question 13

In what year were 28% of Americans living in poverty?

Answer 13

1952

Question 14

Domestic Problems (4)

Answer 14

1. Following WW2 there was an increased birth rate. (3)
2. Government demand for war materials over. (3)
3. Unemployment (4)
4. Why was Truman not able to give returning GI’s (veterans) everything they wanted? (4)

Question 15

Domestic Problems (4)
1. Following WW2 there was an increased birth rate. (3)

Answer 15

a. Women had to increasingly stay at home to look after children.
b. Increased demand for housing in the suburbs.
c. Increased pressure in the school system.

Question 16

Domestic Problems (4)
2. Government demand for war materials over. (3)

Answer 16

a. Jobs were threatened.
b. Economy adapted to some extent.
c. Factories changed what they produced to serve new market for consumer goods. (3)

Question 17

Domestic Problems (4)
2. Government demand for war materials over. (3)
c. Factories changed what they produced to serve new market for consumer goods. (3)

for vibes not memorories

Answer 17

i. Clothing
ii. Cars
iii. Household appliances

Question 18

Domestic Problems (4)
3. Unemployment (3)

Answer 18

a. Rose to 5% by 1950
b. Those worst affected were minority groups and women.
c. They received little protection from trade unions. (1)

Question 19

Domestic Problems (4)
3. Unemployment (4)
c. They received little protection from trade unions. (1)

Answer 19

Trade unions had been finding themselves increasingly under pressure for their left-wing sympathies.

Question 20

Domestic Problems (4)
4. Why was Truman not able to give returning GI’s (veterans) everything they wanted? (4)

Answer 20

a. They want jobs houses, cars, good food, and product, go on like before.
b. Everything they have not been able to have during war.
c. Because he has to do so much.
d. There was not much post-war planning because all the economists thought that it would take longer but the atomic bomb ended it.

Question 21

GEN: The Fair Deal (5)

Answer 21

1. Truman’s 21-Point Programme (4)
2. Truman’s State of the Union Address (5)
3. A couple of Fair Deal Measures. (4)
4. Gen why did his programme work out like that and to what extent? (2)
5. Social and Economic Progress Under Truman (8)

Question 22

The Fair Deal (5)
1. Truman’s 21-Point Programme (4)

Answer 22

a. Presented to Congress on 6th September 1945
b. Incorporated economic and social measures to tackle domestic problems.
c. He wanted the legislature to be drafted and passed.
d. Few measures actually passed owing to conservative majority in Congress. (1)

Question 23

The Fair Deal (5)
1. Truman’s 21-Point Programme (4)
d. Few measures actually passed owing to conservative majority in Congress. (1)

Answer 23

i. Republicans and Dixiecrats disapprove.

Question 24

The Fair Deal (5)
2. Truman’s State of the Union Address (5)

Answer 24

a. Address in January 1949
b. He was sustained high (emotionally) by legitimacy of victory in previous year’s election.
c. Stated that every part of population had the right to a fair deal from government.
d. Introduced a series of revised measures.
e. Became known as “The Fair Deal”.

Question 25

The Fair Deal (5)
3. A couple of Fair Deal Measures. (4)

Answer 25

a. Life Based living: (8)
b. Money and stuff for me labourers. (4)
c. Civil rights legislation. (3)
d. A $4 billion tax increase to reduce the national debt and finance these programs.

Question 26

The Fair Deal (5)
3. A couple of Fair Deal Measures. (4)
a. Life Based living: (8)

Answer 26

i. Freely available universal health care, to be funded by payroll deductions.
ii. Federally financed low-cost housing
iii. ‘The redevelopment of large areas of the blighted and slum sections of our cities’
iv. Increased Social Security payments and extended coverage.
v. Federal aid to education
vi. Public Works Programme
vii. A permanent FEPC (Fair Employment Practices Committee)
viii. The establishment of a new Department of Welfare

Question 27

The Fair Deal (5)
3. A couple of Fair Deal Measures. (4)
b. Money and stuff for me labourers. (4)

Answer 27

i. A minimum wage rise from 40 cents per hour to 75 cents.
ii. Guaranteed prices and crop insurance for farmers
iii. Tax cuts for low-income earners
iv. The repeal of the Taft–Hartley Act

Question 28

The Fair Deal (5)
3. A couple of Fair Deal Measures. (4)
c. Civil rights legislation. (3)

Answer 28

i. The abolition of poll taxes
ii. Anti-lynching laws
iii. An immigration bill.

Question 29

The Fair Deal (5)
4. Gen why did his programme work out like that and to what extent? (2)

Answer 29

a. Lacked the fierce economic necessity that had allowed Roosevelt to push through the ‘New Deal’.
b. It was never implemented comprehensively.

Question 30

The Fair Deal (5)
5. Social and Economic Progress Under Truman (8)

Answer 30

a. Employment (4)
b. Income from agriculture, share dividends, and businesses were at all-time highs.
c. No bank had failed in nearly nine years.
d. Directly gov schemes relating to jobs (and not-jobs) (3)
e. Millions of new homes had been financed to be built through government programs. (2)
f. A start had been made in clearing inner city slums. (3)
g. Poverty (3)

Question 31

The Fair Deal (5)
5. Social and Economic Progress Under Truman (8)
a. Employment (4)

Answer 31

i. By 1953
ii. 62 million Americans were employed.
iii. Employment increased by 11 million under Truman.
iv. Unemployment was virtually zero.

Question 32

The Fair Deal (5)
5. Social and Economic Progress Under Truman (8)
d. Directly gov schemes relating to jobs (and not-jobs) (3)

Answer 32

i. Minimum wage had been increased.
ii. Social Security benefits had been doubled.
iii. 7.8 million veterans had taken advantage of the GI Bill.

Question 33

The Fair Deal (5)
5. Social and Economic Progress Under Truman (8)
e. Millions of new homes had been financed to be built through government programs. (2)

Answer 33

i. William J. Levitt built 1.5 million homes a year, a policy aimed at addressing the growing demand for homes in the suburbs.
ii. Levitt’s homes were popular among those who believed that homeownership prevented communism.

Question 34

The Fair Deal (5)
5. Social and Economic Progress Under Truman (8)
f. A start had been made in clearing inner city slums. (3)

Answer 34

i. Ironically this made housing worse for African Americans in the northern cities.
ii. The cleared slums were not replaced with affordable housing quickly enough.
iii. Caused rents to skyrocket.

Question 35

The Fair Deal (5)
5. Social and Economic Progress Under Truman (8)
g. Poverty (3)

Answer 35

i. Poverty had been reduced.
ii. Percentage of Americans living in poverty fell from 33% in 1949…
iii. To 28% by 1952.