USA 1945-68: Uneven prosperity
ICSE · Class 12 · History
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What to Focus On
- Truman became President in April 1945 after Roosevelt's death.
- Roosevelt/Truman won the 1944 election with more than 25.6 million votes against Dewey's 22 million.
- Truman signed the order for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- McCarthy's Wheeling speech was delivered on 9 February 1950.
- He claimed there were more than fifty communists in the State Department.
- He later led the Senate's Permanent Investigating Subcommittee.
- Eisenhower won the 1952 election with 55.1 per cent of the vote and all but nine states.
- His domestic policy was called dynamic conservatism.
- The soil bank plan reduced overproduction by asking farmers to cut output.
Common Mistakes to Avoid
Brown v. Board of Education ended segregation everywhere in the United States immediately.
Plessy v. Ferguson established racial equality in education.
Truman made major civil rights laws pass in 1948.
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Four presidents of the period and their main image
Truman wins in 1944 and uses atomic power
Truman's civil rights message in 1948
Backlash against Truman's civil rights efforts
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