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Chapter 37 – Cold War BeginsPostwar Economy

1947, the Republican Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act over President Truman's veto. It outlawed the "closed" (all-union) shop and required union leaders to take a noncommunist oath.

The GI Bill of Rights or the GI Bill, made generous provisions for sending the former solders to school.

Reasons for Economic Success

The military budget helped jumpstart high-technology industries such as aerospace, plastics, and electronics.

Cheap energy also fueled the economic boom.

The Sunbelt

The "Sunbelt", a 15-state area stretching from Virginia through Florida and Texas to Arizona and California

People moved in search of jobs, better climate, and lower taxes

Growth of Suburbs

In all regions, America's modern white migrants moved from the city to the new suburbs.

home-loan guarantees, making it more economically attractive to own a home in the suburbs

"White flight" to the suburbs and the migration of blacks from the South left the inner cities, especially those in the Northeast and Midwest, to become poverty-stricken.

The Baby BoomIn the decade and a half after 1945, the

birth rate in the United States exploded as the "baby boom" took place. More than 50 million babies were born by the end of the 1950s