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PARTICIPATIONPARTICIPATION
Page 842 chart For each graph, indicate which years showed
the biggest increases.
Read “Remarkable Recovery.” What created this economic growth after WWII?
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Long-term causes1. German discontent with Treaty of Versailles
2. Economic instability in Europe
3. Rise of totalitarian governments (Mussolini, Hitler)
Short-term causes1. Expansion of Germany, Italy, and Japan
2. Failure of appeasement
3. German invasion of Poland
4. Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
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The AlliesAxis PowersPearl HarborPropagandaWomens’ BaseballAdolf HitlerThe HolocaustBenito MussoliniJoseph Stalin
Winston ChurchillFranklin D. RooseveltD-DayBattle of BritainAtomic BombBattle of StalingradAircraft of WWIIJapanese InternmentNuremburg Trials
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1. Defeat of Axis Powers2. Destruction, immense loss of life3. Recognition of Holocaust4. Founding of United Nations
Long-term Effects1. Rise of U.S. and Soviet Union as superpowers2. Cold War3. Soviet control of Eastern Europe4. Divided Germany5. Development of nuclear capability
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Readjusting1. GI Bill of Rights
Paid part of tuition Unemployment benefits Low-interest loans to buy
homes/businesses
2. Housing crisis Suburbs: small residential
communities surrounding cities
Levittown Page 857
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Readjusting3. Family changes
Women working found new independence
4. Economic recovery War savings meant people had money to spend when
the war ended Page 842
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Harry TrumanRoosevelt died in 1945“The Buck Stops Here”Truman supports Civil
Rights• Asked for ban on poll
tax, a federal anti-lynching law, and a permanent civil rights commission
Higher prices and lower wages plagued his presidency
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Truman and IkeFair Deal
• Extension of Roosevelt’s New Deal• Nationwide system of health insurance• Crop-subsidy system
Korean War• Stalemate
Dwight D. Eisenhower up for election• “I Like Ike” (1952)
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Presidency “Modern
Republicanism” Conservative with
money Liberal with human
beings Brown v. Board of
Education Public schools must
be racially integrated Civil rights protests
Civil disobedience
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Split Sections 2 and 3 into six parts5 groupsEach group gets one part to read
As a group, create a summary of the most important parts of your reading
Each group member must write the summary downThen, we’ll re-number and make 6 new groups
Each new group will have at least one person from each of the original groups
Must create a presentation of the sections for the class
Should be six different presentations
The Organization and Organization ManSuburban LifestyleAutomobile Culture and Road to SuburbiaConsumerism UnboundNew Era of Mass Media and Emergence of
TeenagerSubculture and African Americans and Rock n Roll
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