Natioinal War Labor Board

(NWLB)

Created to enforce a planned economy to ensure that the US had everything they needed for the war. The goal was to centralize, organize and help roduce goods for the war effort.

They prohibited the production of nonessential conusumer goods, this was a downside of this movement. Also dictated styles for vicilian apparel in an attempt to conserve anything possibly needed for the war effort.

Rose from 4 million in 1939 to 43 million in 1945. By the end of the war lowest earners were paying 23% and people with extremely high incomes had to pay up to 94%

Tax revenues on income only paid for about half of the war so that the US created war bonds to help rovide extra funds.

1. Right to have press and report news

2. The right to hold property

3. The right to move freeely within their own country and outside the borders of their country

The House Committee of Un-American Activities

(HUAC)

The Works Progress Administration

(WPA)

Senior editor at time magazine, associated with communists and then to becoming anti communist. Chambers presented a list of underground communists working with the US government. ONe of the men was Alger Hiss which was a close advisor to President Truman. At Hiss's farm there was a hollowed out pumpkin containing his list of all the communist's within the government; This was called the Pumpkin Papers!

Convicted of Purgery before HUAC, and was sentenced to Jail Time!

Most famous anti-communist crusader. So famous that the anti-communist crusade that he led is often referred to as "McCarthyism"

Radio, Card Catalogues, Dangerous Spy in the Army, Only success was spreading fear and paranoia against communism within the United States.

Msassive increase of births following WW2 from around 1944 to the 1960's. Factors of this 

1. End of the war resulted in a huge spike in marriages

2. Marriage was occuring at much younger ages, woman were under pressure to become married under the age of 20

3. Rising prosperity allowed people to afford the costs of multiple children

1.Offered Educational Benefits to veterans for college

2.Loan benefits for homes and businesses

All for Veterans

Grew 6 times faster than cities, expanded 

Automobile production, and Highway Construction facilitated the rush to the suburbs as more and more people were able to commute longer distances to work

An American sociologist who studied the structures of power and class thorughout the United States.

Wrote The Power Elite - that called attention to interwoven interests of the leaders of the military, corporations, and politicians; and how the ordinary citizen is relatively powerless to the control of these superior people.

Johnson demanded an 

1. End to Poverty

2. Renovate the decaying central Cities

3. Provide every young American with the chance to attend college

4. Protect the health of the elderly

5. Enchance cultural life

6. End Racial Injustice

Ensured all citizens the right to vote. 

Political Consequences - Johnson lost democratic policial control of the south.

Increased federal money provided to universities, this created scholarships, financial aid and low interest loans; available for American students

1. Guaranteeed Student Loan Program(Stafford Loan) Created in the Higher education Act of 1965 to provide low interest loans backed by the government for college students.

2. College Work-Study Program(Federal Work-Study Program) A program that provides students with part time jobs to help pay for college educations

1.Communist and Socialist Movement

2. Emphasized Class Consciousness, all differences left at the wayside.

3. Politically Radical, the members of the old left rejected mainstream political parties.

1a. Lost steam in the 1930's as communism and socialism gained a negative connotation.

i. Anti-communist fear throughout the United States added towards the end of the Old Left

1. Not communist, believed in strongly regulating capitalism.

2. Culturally radical, rather than policially radical. Happiness achieved through capitalism!

3. Students and inellectuals were engines of change(rather than workers and labor unions)

Written by Tom Hayden, former president of SDS

2. Made several claims

a. Criticized the Cold War, 

b. Complained about domest social problems. Criticized racial discrimination, big business, and labor unions

c. Criticized mainstrea American society. Attacked traditinoal types of authority and highlighted the problems within mass society

Largest anti-war movement during the 1960's, this group was very diverse; members were part of a large variety of political groups and backgrounds.

1.Large marches and demonstrations against the war.

2. Teach-Ins

3. Mass Protests

5. March on the Pentagon

6. Anti-War done after Nixxon won the presidency

Occured in the beginning of 1968,  this was a military attack by North Vietnam on American and South Vietnamese military and civilian centers. Purpose of this attack was to "breack the back" of the two allied countries. 

North Vietnamese soldiers disguised themselves as peasants and transported military goods into south vietnam for the attack

Democratic Party - Adopted Anti-war platform

New Left - Alienated many average Americans(Social Conservatives/moderates)

Civil rights legislation caused the democratic southerners to alienated from the Democratic Party

Political Analyst who in 1968, released his book "the Emerging Republican Majority.

a. Predicts a cconservatice and republican realignment due to shifting voting patterns.

b. Urged the republicans to have a "southern strategy" where the people of the south should embrace conservative viewpoints rather then support the liberal people of the north