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Returning Veterans
Once the veterans returned from war back to civilian life congress passed the GI Bill of Rights in 1944. This bill provided unemployment payments and created an agency to help veterans find a job. -
Immigration
After World War II Immigration started up again. Between 1945 and 1951 some 400,000 Europeans were admitted to the united states as displaced persons. Many were Jews that had survived concentration camps. -
The Baby Boom
Because of soldiers returning home from war many of them wanted to start families so between 1946 and 1961 more than 65 million children were born in those 15 years. -
Taft Harley Act
In 1945 and 1946 unions went on strike for higher wages. A railroad strike in 1946 halted all trains. President Truman threatened to draft the strike.It gave the power to stop the strikes that threatened the health and safety of the nation and it also banned the closed shop. Closed shop required that an employer hire only union members. -
The United Nations
The alliance between the united states, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union had collapsed. The soviet union is now the enemy and they exploded there first atomic bomb in 1949 -
Leaving Cities
Many people that live in the cities after most people moved into the suburbs were low income families that paid little to no taxes at all. This caused there to be no money to up keep police firefighters and schools so we put a tax on wages. Most people moved their businesses out of the cities because they did not want to pay the wage tax and they had new malls in the suburbs. -
Suburban Living
Little housing was built during World War II. There was a huge demand for housing after the war. Tract housing was then built outside the cities and because the cost of buying a vehicle went down because of the highway most families became a two car family. -
An End to "Separate but Equal"
In 1954 the U.S Supreme court filed Brown V. The Board Of Education Of Topeka, Kansas. It took on segregation in public schools. Once there was proven that they were causing psychological problems for children. Eventually all public schools were to be integrated. -
The Iron Curtain
The world was divided between the free nations of the west and the communist nations of eastern Europe. Winston Churchill saw the danger and he called it an iron curtain. -
New Programs and New Boundaries
President Eisenhower did not believe in big government he believed in big projects to help the economy and to help citizens. The interstate highway system that we have today is the result of the Federal Highway Act of 1956 More than 40,000 miles of highways were built. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
In 1955 Rosa Parks took a stand. Rosa Parks was a member of the NAACP. Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up to a whit man after she had a hard days work. She was arrested for not giving her seat up. She then caused the Montgomery bus boycott and no one would get on the bus. -
Desegregation And Civil Rights
There were 9 children being admitted into Little Rock School District and they were refusing to let them in so President Eisenhower sent 1000 us soldiers with fixed bayonets to walk them into class this made people realize about civil right. Eventually There was a law that everyone of race and ethnicity could vote. -
Campaign Of 1960
the first difference of the election of 1960 was JFK was a us senator from Massachusetts that was catholic. The second difference was that there was television for the first time they were able to have debates on TV. -
Kennedy's Programs
One of Kennedy's programs were launching Yuri Gagarin a cosmonaut into space. Also Kennedy made the 5 digit zip code while he was in office. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
On October 22 1962 we had sent spy planes over to the soviet union and found that the soviets had placed long range missiles in Cuba that could easily do extreme damage to the untied states. President Kennedy ordered a military blockade into Cuba due to them trying to get more missiles over ships. They agreed to remove missiles after the us agreed not to go to war. -
Kennedy Assassination
Kennedy and Mrs Kennedy were campaigning in Dallas Texas and suddenly shots rang out from a building in dealey. The president was hit in the head and died immediately. -
President Johnson
President Johnson took over after the assassination and pushed many of the same things Kennedy was going to do or campaigned for. -
Taking it to the Courts
In 1964 president Johnson signed an executive order to give African american women more job opportunities and minority groups. -
Workplace Rights
Woman were being under paid since the men came home after ww11 . It was also hard for women that were single to get credit. Married women also could not get credit because they often had their husbands last names. Congress then passed the Equal pay act which meant it was illegal to pay women less than men. -
Civil Rights
In 1964 when the Civil Rights Act was passed the whites in Mississippi were still denying there rights to vote so president Johnson sent over a group to help African Americans be able to vote and 3 of the workers were murdered by the kkk. Martin Luther King Jr started a march from Selma it would be a 50 mile march after that president Johnson banned literacy tests and over 250000 African Americans had registered to vote -
Gulf of Tonkin
US destroyers off the coast of Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin reported that patrol boats attacked them so the US took action and had given president Johnson the permission to go to war. -
Native American Gains
In 1968 Native Americans began to lobby for their rights. They wanted greater economic opportunities and an end to stereotyping them. President Johnson then signed the Indian Civil Rights Act in 1978 recognized local laws on reservations. -
Equal Rights
In 1966 there was a group that appeared called NOW it stood for The National Organization for Women it lobbied for sex discrimination rights against women. In 1972 congress passed the ERA the Equal Rights Amendment for women. -
Latino Power
A strike against growers due to really bad working conditions. California then passed a law governing labor contract . The growers were required to enter into colligative bargaining with farm workers union.
