Truman Fair Deal
What was the new Deal Roots?
What is Social Security, labor protections, and public works?
What are the big three that dominated with chrome and tail fins?
What is GM, Ford, and Chrysler?
Technology + Innovation Reshape Daily Life?
Television : from novelty to necessity with nightly news, sitcoms, and ads to shape culture!
Nuclear Power: “Atoms for Peace” promotes civilian energy.
Early Computer: ENIAC-era machines inspire business data processing + defense computing foundations.
Medicine : Polio vaccine (mid 1950s) transforms public health with new antibiotics and new surgical techniques to expand care.
What did neighborhoods become?
What is "copy and paste"?
What was part of the new modern high school culture?
What is Clubs, Sports, Prom & Year Books?
What was the fair Deal Vision?
What is Truman proposes national health insurance, civil rights, housing, and education aid?
What did local roads, state routes, turnpikes turn into?
What is Interstate Highway System?
Why were big factories created?
What is scale applies, autos, and electronics?
Who got pushed out of factory jobs after GI's got home?
What is Women & Teens?
What act was passed in 1949 from the Fair Deal?
What is the Housing Act of 1949?
What did new roads do to the travel time in the cities?
What is they shrank travel time?
What caused supermarkets, chains, and catalogs to feed rising demand?
What is mass retail?
What happened to the teens and women after getting pushed out of jobs?
What is women got more domestic roles & Teens were steered to stay in school?
What was stalled as a result of the Fair Deal?
What is national health insurance and broad civil rights bills blocked by Congress?
What expanded as family roadtrips needed predictable rest and dining?
What is The Holiday Inn?
poltics
Politics at Home: Labor Unrest & Reconversion
Postwar reconversion brings inflation, housing shortages, and labor unrest. Truman faces pressure to stabilize prices and wages while shifting from wartime controls to peacetime growth
Strike Wave & Union Flashpoints
Steelworkers (1946): Massive walkouts for wage gains.
United Auto Workers (GM, 1945–46): Push for pay tied to productivity.
Coal miners (UMWA, 1946): Energy supply leverage.
Rail and maritime strikes disrupt commerce.
Workers demand wages that match rising consumer prices.
What is the style of houses/neighborhood development located in Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and New Jersey.
What is the Levittown-style?
What type of education hit new highs?
What is secondary school?
Why was the Fair Deal similar to the New Deal?
What is Fair Deal targets postwar prosperity gaps rather than Depression-era crisis?
How did cars help people living in the suburbs?
What is it helped them travel to get to jobs, grocery stores, and malls?
What were some TV ads advertising?
What did growing South Jersey districts build?
What is new campuses and gyms?