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USA by 1945 |
400,000 military deaths, 6 civilian deaths 42% world's income 50% world's manufacturing output 80% world's cars |
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Politics in 1945 |
12th April 1945 - FDR died FDR = avg. 70% approval rating (never ↓ 48%) Truman = ↓ political capital (trust, influence) Truman - executive pwr challenged (↑ by FDR) |
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New Deal |
reform & recover economy & help victims Alphabet Agencies reformed stock exchange - end irresponsible trading reformed banking system - end cheap credit |
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New Deal - effectiveness |
unemployment - '33 = 14m, '37 = 8m, - '38 = 10m - ↑ after gov. cut spending - '39 ↓ - build armaments (prep for war)
public works - dams, roads, airfields, schools, etc WW2 ended Depression - N.D temporary fix |
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Ethnic Divisions |
white = 130 mil. (1945) - maj pop. Asian American = 250,000 (1940) - 320,000 (1950) African American = 14 mil. (10% pop.) - south (slavery) = jim crow - great migration (6 mil, 1916-70) |
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Social Divisions |
Great Depression = ↓ social inequality minorities = ↑ likely poverty, poor education, etc 1944 = 36% workforce female end WW2 = 12 mil. soldiers (retake jobs) |
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Potsdam Conference (July-Aug. 1945) |
Truman, Attlee, Stalin Atomic bomb - Truman didn't tell Stalin |
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Containment in Europe |
NSC-68 (Apr '50) ↑ defence from $13 bil to $50 bil Feb. 1945 - Kennan's telegram Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan 5th March '46 - Churchill's Iron Curtain speech |
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Truman Doctrine |
aid Greece & Turkey against communist threat 12 March '47 - ask congress for $400 mil - paint communism as direct threat commitment to oppose Communism spread |
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Marshall Plan |
financial aid for Europe - rebuild economies Feb. '48 - communism in Czechoslovakia - persuaded congress to approve plan all European countries (inc. communist) $17 bil. from April 1948 |
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Berlin Airlift |
25th March '48 - blockade of West Berlin starts 324 days, 275,000 flights, 1.5 mil. tons supplies 12th May '49 - blockade lifted Truman's best f.p. - propaganda victory, est. NATO, deployment B-29 bombers |
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Containment in Asia |
Japan - surrender 14th Aug '45 |
