• Winner: Harry Truman (D)
• Thomas Dewey (R)
• Split in the Democratic Party:
•        J. Strom Thurmond and the Dixiecrats
•         Henry Wallace and the Progressive Party

• Employment Act of 1946
• Postwar Inflation and Strikes
• Taft-Hartley Act

• Arms Race
•          NSC-68
• National Security Act (1947) created:
•         CIA
•         NAtional Security Council (NSC)

• G.I. Bill (Servicemen's Readjustment Act)
• Baby Boom
• Suburban Growth
•            Levittowns
• Rise of the Sunbelt

Problems with a Republican Congress

• Committe on Civil Rights
• Desegregtion of the federal government and Armed Forces

Description

• The United Nations
• World Bank
• Ends with the creation of Satellite States and the Iron Curtain

Policy created by George Kennan

• U.S.- Japanese Security Treaty
• Independence for the Philippines with American Influence
• Chinese Civil War
•        Nationalists (Chiang Kai-shek)
•        Communists (Mao Zedong)
• Korean War
•        Douglas McArthur
•        38th Parallel

• NATO
• Truman Doctrine
• Marshall Plan
• Berlin Airlift

• McCarthyism
• House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
• McCarren Internal Security Act
• Dennis et. al. v. United States
• Hiss Case
• Rosens Case

• National healthcare insurance
• Civil rights legislation
• New farm program

Blocked except for minimum wage increase and more inclusion under Social Security