- How many soldiers returned home after WWII and what did they hope to find?
- 12 million soldiers returned home after WWII and they hoped to find jobs, homes, and financial security.
- How was Truman going to go about putting striking railroad workers back to work in 1946?
- He forced the strikers back to work by executive order.
- What problem did Truman face when trying to rally American’s around the Korean war effort and why?
- Economic controls were weakened and Congress did not approve of his war taxes because pirces, wages, and the supplies of consumer goods began to stabilize and no one was really in the mood to scarifice.
- What was Truman’s Executive Order (1947) and why was it significant?
- His executive order was the establishment for the President's committee on equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed services. It is significant because it allowed anybody, no matter your race, color, religion or national origin, to be part of the military and be treated the same as everyone else.
- How did Truman aid in ending the Steel Strikes in 1952?
- He seized the mills after they failed to agree to terms and strikes were getting ready to occur.
- What
were Truman’s successes?
- His successes were he held the economy together, America turned the corner to prosperity, people were working again, the massive labor struggle was finally over, and he helped pave the way to the equal rights legislation of the 1960's.
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