Truman: Domestic Policies

Question 1

Who owned USA war loans? How much?

Answer 1

U.K. - 31billion
China- 1.6billion
France- 3.2 billion

Question 2

Bretton woods system?

Answer 2

1944
Established the International Monetary Fund and world bank;
To provide financial aid

Question 3

How was the army demobilised?

Answer 3

1945: 9 million demobilised
1946: 1.5 million

Question 4

What was the effect of men returning? The consumer…

Answer 4

25% inflation rise

Question 5

How much was invested in the gi bill?

Answer 5

20billlion

Question 6

When was the baby boom?

Answer 6

1945-50

Question 7

How did car sales change?

Answer 7

1946-1955

2.1m - 7.9million

Question 8

How much war bonds matured?

Answer 8

185billion matured

Question 9

How did output change from 1939-1952

Answer 9

Rose by 90%

Question 10

How did business investment change?

Answer 10

14-38billion

Question 11

Issues with the domestic changes?

Answer 11

Baby boom - housing/school/healthcare

Unemployment rose by 5% by 1950 - mainly minorities

Question 12

Fair deal?

Answer 12

1945, 21 point step programme

Federal educational aid
Abolition of poll taxes
Anti lynching laws
Establishment of new dep. of welfare
Increase minimum wage from 40-75 cents an hour

Question 13

How many were emplyed by 1953?

Answer 13

62 million were employed by 1953- an 11million increase

Question 14

How many veterans got the gi bill?

Answer 14

7.8million

Question 15

How did poverty change?

Answer 15

33-28% from 1949-1953

Question 16

1952 approval rating? Why?

Answer 16

22%

Korean War

Question 17

McCarthyism?

Answer 17

1950 senator j McCarthy

Claimed to have a list of 205 communist members

Question 18

Who died because of McCarthyism?

Answer 18

1953 Alger hiss and the rosenburgs were executed

Question 19

Trumans attempt to deny communists passports…

Answer 19

1952 internal security act

Question 20

Effects of the Korean War?

Answer 20

138k soldiers dead

14% of go spent on Korea

Question 21

How much did inflation rise by? And when?

Answer 21

25% increase from 1945-46

Question 22

How much did minimum wage rise by?

Answer 22

40-70 cents an hour

Question 23

How many Americans were in poverty?

Answer 23

33-28% from 1949-1952