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| active positive Dem from Independence Missouri, fought in WWI | ||
| ran political machine that got Truman into Senate | ||
| less taxes, no rationing, people want to spend | ||
| aided by Serviceman's Readjustment Act or G.I. Bill. Opportunity and help with loans, unemployment insurance, med care | ||
| inflation, but wages don't go up. Strikes | ||
| "Had enough?" Repubs win House and Senate. Robert Taft leads Repubs. | ||
| slow labor union growth. Made is harder to create unions. Needed "cooling off period" 60-80 days where you couldn't nullify contract, plus no "closed shop." No commie leaders, no secondary boycotts | ||
| Pres, VP, Speaker of House, pres pro temp, SOS, treasury, Attorney General, Defense...Vet's Affairs | ||
| 2 terms max. That means min 6 years and a day, max 10 years | ||
| wanted FULL employment | ||
| creates NSC, unifies military, now only have Sec of Defense, CIA created | ||
| Truman wanted anti-lynching laws, no poll tax. Also wanted better min wage, expansion of SSA, better housing and nat'l health care system | ||
| Repubs run Thomas Dewey of NY with VP Earl Warren of CA. Dixiecrats run Strohm Thermand and Liberal Dems run Henry Wallace. Truman does whistle stop campaign-wins-Fair Deal | ||
| arms race. Poland didn't get its own, Stalin not holding word from Yalta, he wants Iran. | ||
| in Moscow as kind of an ambassador (actual ambassador was Will Averell Harriman), sent "long telegram" defining Am policy-one of containment. | ||
| says "Iron Curtain" has descended. Fulton, MO, 1946-Russia feels threatened | ||
| internationalist. US supports world freedom and peace. Ex: Greece and Turkey. Britain can't hold, Truman asks for $400 mil as continuation of WWII | ||
| European Recovery Program. After SOS George Marshall. 6/1947-4/1948. Against poverty, not people. | ||
| Ams unify W Berlin under 1 currency. Lucius Clay says we airlift, so we do from 6/1948-5/1949 | ||
| N. Atlantic Treaty Org. seen as threat to Stalin, so later he makes Warsaw Pact | ||
| provide econ/tech aid to the poor free nations of Asia, Afr and Lat. Am. Trying to contain comm. | ||
| Org of Am States, hemispheric alliance. | ||
| During WWII Jews kept out to not upset Arabs. After, Brit give mandate to UN, Israel created and US recognizes | ||
| independence granted 1946. We keep bases there | ||
| post-war world run by Douglas MacArthur. Military occupation. Tojo gone, emp kept as figurehead. Parliament had to renounce war | ||
| we "lost" China. Mao-comm. Chiang Kai-Shek leads Nat'lists as a dictator. Marshall sent to arbitrate but May 1949, Nat'lists to Formosa (Taiwan) and China is comm. Blame Dems! | ||
| Truman started-to find commies in gov't. Dismiss 300, 3000 quit. | ||
| illegal to teach or advocate overthrow of gov't- now applied to 11 comm leaders | ||
| House UnAmerican Activities Committee. went after Hollywood-HW 10 | ||
| lead investigator of HUAC- very anti-comm | ||
| Whittaker Chambers-confessed SU courier points at Hiss, he did it in '39 so he is convicted of perjury | ||
| 3rd SOS, Decide NSC-68 with Truman 4/1950. Expansion of armed forces to force containment. | ||
| Klaus Fuchs-confessed SU courier names Harry Gold who names Davie Greenglass who names Julius Rosenberg. Crime "worse than murder." '51-'53. Electric chair | ||
| protect Am through strict regulation of comm activities. | ||
| set quota for anyone with comm ties into country. Deported anyone with submersive background. Lift ban on immigration from Japan | ||
| Kim Il Sung (Puongyang-1/3 of pop but more industry) v. Syngmon Rhee (Seoul- more pop and agriculture). June 1950 N. Korea crosses 38th parallel, takes all except Pusan (now Busan) | ||
| NSC-68 lets MacArthur and the 90% Am army nto war. MacArthur's attack at Inchon is brilliant. Needs authorization to continue-says go on to Yalu River. | ||
| China feels threatened. Chou En Lai tells Chinese to push back, now we're at 38th again. MacArthur wants to bomb China, fired 4/1951. Stalemate for 2 years. | ||
| $20 bil, 4000 lives, a tie. | ||
| Feb 1950, starts giving speeches about Comm. Edward R. Murrow stands up against him. He went after George Marshall and the army...fail, 3 years later he's dead. | ||
| "Have you no shame, sir?" Army attorney | ||
| labor unrest, some corruption (in IRS and RFC), Estes Kefauver and committee going after org crime traced it to Dems. Repubs run on Korea, comm, corruption, Dwight D. Eisenhower (not Robert Taft) VP Richard Nixon. Dems run Adlai Stevenson who campaigns for long struggle. DDE wins. |
