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    The Cold War promoted secrecy around American nuclear tests that exposed civilians to radiation causing cancer and birth defects. During this time, tens of millions of white Americans moved to expanding suburbs while black Americans remained trapped in declining rural areas of the South and urban ghettos of the North. However, Wolf argues that this period also brought stability and prosperity to America through new foreign, domestic, and economic policies that established a middle class and growing income distribution, despite the focus on communism and issues around civil rights.

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    The Cold War promoted secrecy around American nuclear tests that exposed civilians to radiation causing cancer and birth defects. During this time, tens of millions of white Americans moved to expanding suburbs while black Americans remained trapped in declining rural areas of the South and urban ghettos of the North. However, Wolf argues that this period also brought stability and prosperity to America through new foreign, domestic, and economic policies that established a middle class and growing income distribution, despite the focus on communism and issues around civil rights.

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    The Cold War promoted secrecy around American nuclear tests that exposed civilians to radiation causing cancer and birth defects. During this time, tens of millions of white Americans moved to expanding suburbs while black Americans remained trapped in declining rural areas of the South and urban ghettos of the North. However, Wolf argues that this period also brought stability and prosperity to America through new foreign, domestic, and economic policies that established a middle class and growing income distribution, despite the focus on communism and issues around civil rights.

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    The Cold War promoted secrecy around American nuclear tests that exposed civilians to radiation causing cancer and birth defects. During this time, tens of millions of white Americans moved to expanding suburbs while black Americans remained trapped in declining rural areas of the South and urban ghettos of the North. However, Wolf argues that this period also brought stability and prosperity to America through new foreign, domestic, and economic policies that established a middle class and growing income distribution, despite the focus on communism and issues around civil rights.

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    “The Cold War encouraged a culture of secrecy and dishonesty. American nuclear tests, conducted on
    Pacific islands and Nevada, exposed thousands of civilians to radiation that causes cancer and birth
    defects.” Pg. 724

    “tens of millions of white Americans rapidly expanded the suburbs, but they left blacks trapped in the
    declining rural areas of the South and urban ghettos of the North.” Pg. 733

    Wolf’s Perspective

    Even though the talk of communism dominates most of this time period, it’s important to realize that
    this time period gave rise to a prosperous, stable, and safe America. Learning from the mistakes of the
    Depression, the causes of the wars, and the consequences of two World Wars, American established a
    new set of foreign, domestic, and economic policies to bring stability in the nation. Not only were we
    able to achieve stability that sits through till date, the improvement in civil liberties and empowering of
    work force gave rise a more prosperous middle class. Furthermore, purchasing power grew over time,
    and do did the distribution of income throughout the population. Without the distribution of income
    and better banking policies, the economic and military global power we see today would not have
    existed. The same goes with the military, which not only promoted racial integration at the largest scale,
    but enabled the American industries to innovate, paving the way for a more technologically able and
    innovative production system.

    Key Terms

    - McCarthyism
    o Post World War fear of Communists in US government positions; peaked during the
    Korean war; most closely associated with Joseph McCarthy, a major instigator of this
    hysteria.
    - Executive order
    o An executive order is a signed, written, and published directive from the President of
    the United States that manages operations of the federal government.
    Religion

    - American Catholics resented and feared communists’ hostility to religion.

    Economic

    - President Truman’s first domestic task was to transition from a wartime to a peacetime
    economy.
    - Returning soldiers took advantage of the GI Bill of Rights, to obtain home mortgages and set up
    small businesses.
    - The demolishment of wartime price control regulations led to a sharp rise in prices.
    - In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the United States experienced the greatest economic boom in
    history.

    Social

    - The divorce rate in 1945 rose to double its prewar level.


    - 2 million women lost their jobs as returning soldiers entered the workforce.
    - Operation Dixie was a campaign to bring unionization to the South and shatter anti-labor
    conservative politics.
    - Nearly 5 million workers walked off their jobs demanding wage increases.
    - By 1952, 20% of black southerners were registered to vote.
    - Within a year, 1 million Mexicans were deported within Operation Wetback in 1954
    - Anti-communism grew especially among ethnic groups like Polish Americans, with roots in
    Eastern European countries now dominated by the Soviet Union.

    Political

    - The Fair Deal focused on improving the social safety net and raising the living standards.
    - President Truman called on Congress to increase minimum wage, enact national health
    insurance, expand public housing, bring back social security, and aid education.
    - For the first time since the 1920’s, Republicans swept control of both houses of Congress.
    - Between 1945 and 1951, 11 states passed laws for fair employment practices and laws against
    discrimination in access to jobs and public accommodation.
    - Immigration policies changed, allowing communist refuges to enter irrespective of quotas.
    - American politics from 1940’s to 1960’s was structured by the powerful anticommunist crusade.
    - Organized labor emerged as a major supporter of the foreign policy of the Cold War.

    Geographical

    - Tens of millions of white Americans rapidly expanded the suburbs.

    Military

    - In July 1948, Truman issued an executive order desegregating the armed forces.
    - The armed forces became the first large institution in America to promote racial integration.
    - Cold War military spending helped fuel the economic growth, support scientific research,
    perfect weaponry, and improve goods that had a large impact on civilian life like airplanes and
    medicine.

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