TRUMAN AND POST-WAR AMERICA
Courier
(Objective:
Understanding of Truman?s Lack of Civic Personality, Cause of Cold
War, Rise of Joseph McCarthy, and the big question: where did it all
go so wrong?
I. Thesis: Its largely Truman?s fault
II. He had big problems--Postwar Economic Anxieties
A.Arial
CourierFear
Depression-demobilize, strikes, inflation
B.Arial
CourierConservative
worries?Taft-Hartley Act
C.Arial
CourierAdministration
acts
1.Arial
CourierEmployment
Act-Council of Economic Advisors
2.Arial
CourierG.I
Bill
D.Arial
Courier1948
Twenty year Economic boom
1.Arial
CourierMilitary
Spend-Industry, energy, and Agriculture
2.Arial
CourierBaby
Boom and rush to sunbelt
III.Arial
CourierCold
War Anxieties
A.Arial
CourierTruman
and lack of Civic Personality
1.Arial
CourierFDR
lefty impact
2.Arial
CourierTruman
failure to command assent-50% at best
B.Arial
CourierDomestic
problems small compared to Foreign Policy
1.Arial
CourierWestern
Europe in Chaos: Churchill ?Iron Curtain?
a.Arial
CourierEarly
plans for economic assistance
b.Arial
CourierFailure
in "thrifty" Congress (Nothing to USSR)
2.Arial
CourierIn
Congress-fear of Communist advancement
a.Arial
CourierPotsdam
and Eastern Europe
b.Arial
CourierYalta--Sell-out
of Poland?
c.Arial
CourierRepublican
accusations grow--Nixon & H.U.A.C.
d.Arial
CourierTruman-Loyalty
oaths and search for spies
3.Arial
CourierTruman
gives Republicans credence
a.Arial
CourierGeorge
Kennan, "Article X"- Containment
b.Arial
CourierTruman
Doctrine 1947
c.Arial
CourierAid to
Turkey and Greece
4.Arial
CourierThen
Marshall issues his plan
a.Arial
CourierAid to
Western Europe?$22 Billion
b.Arial
CourierHow
sell it?
1.Arial
Courier"Scare
Hell out of Them"
2.Arial
CourierCzechoslovakia
and Berlin Air Lift
5.Arial
CourierNorth
Atlantic Treaty Organization-(NATO) 1949
IV.Arial
CourierElection
of 1948-Truman at "High Tide"
A.Arial
CourierDemocrats
unenthusiastically nominate HST
B.Arial
CourierRepublicans-
Dewey
C. Dixiecrats-Thurman
D.Arial
CourierProgressives-
Wallace