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Truman's Domestic Policy
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Truman is born
Today Harry Truman is born. -
office of war mobilization and reconversion
A 1943 organization that controlled all aspects of the economy. Needed to facilitate cooperation in the war effort between the government and representatives of industry and the military, the O.W.M. increased war production 33% in May 1943. -
G.I. Bill of Rights
Congress enacted the bill to provide living allowances, tuition fees, supplies, medical treatment, and loans for homes and businesses. -
Truman takes office
Truman is president after the death of Roosevelt. -
Truman finds out about the Atomic Bomb
He decides to use it against Japan to end the war quickly even if it will kill many japanese people -
Employment act of 1946
Truman promised economic growth and established the Council of Economic Advisors to assist the president in maximizing employment, production, and purchasing power. -
Taft-Hartley Act of 1947
Congress modified the Wagner Act in 1947 to outlaw the practices of delaying a strike, closed shop, and permitting the president to call an eighty-day cooling period. -
1948 election issues
Truman ran against Dewey, a republican devoted to National unity and Strom Thurmond, who represented the Dixiecrats. representing states rights. Truman wins with 24 million votes and the platform of the some of the New Deal and bipartisan foreign policy. -
Fair Deal
Truman proposed a social and economic program during his State of the Union message in 1949. It enlarged the New Deal by adding housing, conservation, economic security, health insurance, federal aid to education, agricultural subsidies, increased the minimum wage, expanded social securities, flood control, slum clearance, expanded public power, reclamation, soil conservation, building of low income housing units. -
Trumen's death
Truman dies of multiple lung failures..
