Truman vs Eisenhower – Flashcards
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appointed the first ever President's Committee on Civil Rights
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First president to address the NAACP
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passed executive orders to desegregate the federal workforce and military after congress refused to pass laws to do so
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Made the fair deal
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created the UN
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created the Marshall Plan
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created the Truman Doctrine
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created the department of Health, Education, and Welfare
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Negotiated a truce in the Korean War
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Atoms for Peace speech gave before the UN proposed the atomic knowledge be used for peace-not war
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His administration created NASA and the Federal Aviation Administraton
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The federal highway act of 1956 turned farmland to suburbia and contributed to American Car culture
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The civil rights act of 1957 was the first civil rights legislation passed since Reconstruction
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Brown v. Board of Education outlawed segregation in public schools
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Who are the Dixiecrats
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They were Southern Democrats formed the States' Rights Party that opposed Truman's emphasis on civil rights
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Who did Truman defeat in reelection?
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Dewey
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What years are the Atomic Age?
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The fifties
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Solution offered by the Truman administration and Congress for millions of veterans thrown out of work as they return to civilian life
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Passed the GI Bill of Rights in 1944. This paid part of their tuition for education, gave them a year worth of unemployment benefits while job hunting, and offered low interest, federally guaranteed loans.
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Solution offered by developers such as William Levitt for the severe housing shortage
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Used efficient, assembly-line methods to mass produce houses. Built suburbs known as suburbia. Had Levittiowns which were mass produced homes
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Solutions offered by Congress under the Truman and Eisenhower administrations for severe housing shortage
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provided financial support for cities to clear out slums and build housing units for low-income families
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Solution offered by the Truman administration and Congress for runaway inflation
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Reestablished controls similar to the wartime controls on prices, wages, and rents
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Solution offered by the Truman administration for labor strikes that threaten to cripple the nations
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Truman threatened to draft the striking workers and to order them as soldiers to stay on the job. He authorized the federal gov. to seize the mines and he threatened to take controls of the railroads as well, so that they would be forced to work for them.
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Solution offered during the Truman administration for discrimination and racial violence
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Wanted an antilynching law, a ban on the poll tax as a voting requirements, a permanent civil rights commission, integration of the armed force, ordered an end to discrimination in the hiring of government employees.
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Business expansion: conglomerates and franchises
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offered economic advancement for people that would conform. Offered consumers more choices
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Suburban expansion: flight from the cities
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contributed to the popularity of the automobile. Lead to the decline of cities and downtowns. Created racial and economic divides between suburbans and city dwellers.
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Population growth: the baby boom
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Created the largest generation in the nation's history. Discovered drugs to fight and prevent kids diseases. Lead to wide-spread overcrowding in schools and a teacher shortage. Lead to a boom for activities for youth
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Dramatic increase in leisure time
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People became more active. Participated in a wide variety of sports, or watched them on tv. Increase in sales of books and magazines
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Dramatic increase in the use of the automobile
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Started building roads and interstates. The trucking business took business from the railroad companies. Exhaust polluted the air. Lead to traffic jams. Helped unify and homogenize the nation(made us more similar place to place)
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The rise of consumerism
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This is the buying of material goods. Americans spent equating material goods with success, planned obsolescence which leads to a throw away society. Increased in private debt
