Housing Act of 1949 and 1950

Examples of Housing Act of 1949 and 1950 in the following topics:

• The Truman Presidency

  • Truman oversaw the Berlin Airlift of 1948, which was one of his greatest foreign policy successes, and the creation of NATO in 1949.
  • When communist North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950, he sent in U.S. troops and gained UN approval for the Korean War.
  • Cold War strategy, Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947, which reorganized the military, and also created the CIA and the National Security Council.
  • As he readied for the 1948 election, Truman made clear his identity as a Democrat in the New Deal tradition, advocating national health insurance and the repeal of the Taft–Hartley Act.
  • Only one of the major Fair Deal bills, the Housing Act of 1949, was ever enacted.

• The Potential of Urban Revitalization

  • Title I of the Housing Act of 1949 kick-started the urban renewal program that would reshape American cities.
  • The Act provided federal funding to cities to cover the cost of acquiring declining areas of cities perceived to be slums.
  • Replenished housing stock might signify an improvement in quality; urban renewal may increase density and reduce sprawl, and it might have economic benefits that improve the economic competitiveness of the city's center.
  • It can also improve cultural and social amenities, through the construction of public spaces and community centers, and can improve safety.
  • Examine the postwar development of urban revitalization, specifically related to Title I of the Housing Act of 1949

• Peacetime Politics

  • Truman oversaw the Berlin Airlift of 1948 and the creation of North Atlantic Treat Organization (NATO) in 1949.
  • Cold War strategy, Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 and reorganized military forces by merging the Department of War and the Department of the Navy into the National Military Establishment (later the Department of Defense) and creating the U.S.
  • The act also created the CIA and the National Security Council.
  • The parties did cooperate on some issues; Congress passed the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, making the Speaker of the House rather than the Secretary of State next in line to the presidency after the vice president.
  • Bill, which subsidized the businesses, training, education, and housing of millions of returning veterans.

• The Fair Deal

  • The most important proposals of the Fair Deal were aid to education, universal health insurance, legislation on fair employment and repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act.
  • In his 1949 State of the Union address, Truman stated that "every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal."
  • Taft under the 1949 National Housing Act, which funded slum clearance and the construction of 810,000 units of low-income housing over a period of six years.
  • Bill, which subsidized the businesses, training, education, and housing of millions of returning veterans.
  • Except for nondiscrimination provisions of the Housing Act of 1949, Truman had to be content with civil rights' gains achieved by executive order or through the federal courts.

• National Security

  • This Act realigned and reorganized the U.S.
  • This was later changed in the amendment to the act in 1949, creating what was to be the Department of Defense.
  • The Act merged the Department of War and the Department of the Navy into the National Military Establishment, headed by the Secretary of Defense.
  • Initially, each of the three service secretaries maintained quasi-cabinet status, but the act was amended on August 10, 1949, to assure their subordination to the Secretary of Defense.
  • The White House suggested that the $10 billion, five-year program could allow the evacuation of targeted urban centers to rural "host areas" and thus save 80% of the population.

• Conclusion: Post-War America

  • In August 1949 the Soviets tested their first nuclear weapon, thereby escalating the risk of warfare.
  • Increasing numbers of workers enjoyed high wages, larger houses, better schools, and more cars and household technology.
  • By the end of the 1950s, 87% of all American families owned at least one T.V., 75% owned cars, and 60% owned their homes.
  • The growth of suburbs was not only a result of postwar prosperity, but innovations of the single-family housing market with low interest rates on 20 and 30 year mortgages and low down payments, especially for veterans.
  • By the end of the 1950s, 87% of all American families owned at least one T.V., 75% owned cars, and 60% owned their homes.

• McCarthyism

  • Events in 1949 and 1950 sharply increased the sense of threat from Communism in the United States.
  • The Soviet Union tested an atomic bomb in 1949, earlier than many analysts had expected.
  • In 1950, the Korean War began, pitting U.S., U.N., and South Korean forces against Communists from North Korea and China.
  • The most famous examples of McCarthyism include the speeches, investigations, and hearings of Senator McCarthy himself; the Hollywood blacklist, associated with hearings conducted by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC); and the various anti-communist activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under Director J.
  • McCarthyism began to lose its potency as the perceived threat of Communism receded during the latter half of the 1950s, even as McCarthy and others overreached politically.

• Conclusion: Truman and the Beginning of the Cold War

  • With the victory of the communist side in the Chinese Civil War and the outbreak of the Korean War (1950–53), the conflict expanded.
  • The Truman Doctrine became the foundation of American foreign policy, and led, in 1949, to the formation of NATO, a military alliance that is still in effect.
  • Cold War strategy, Truman also signed the National Security Act of 1947 and reorganized military forces by merging the Department of War and the Department of the Navy into the National Military Establishment (later the Department of Defense) and creating the U.S.
  • The act also created the CIA and the National Security Council.
  • President Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment of 1949 with guests in the Oval Office.

• Privacy Rights and National Security

  • In the United States, the controversial USA Patriot Act has raised two main questions - to what extent should individual rights and freedoms be restricted and can the restriction of civil rights for the sake of national security be justified?
  • Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 on July 26, 1947.
  • Together with its 1949 amendment, this act stood as the precursor to the Department of Defense.
  • National Security Act of 1947 was set up to advise the President on the integration of domestic, military and foreign policies relating to national security.
  • Senator Arlen Specter after signing H.R. 3199, the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 in the East Room of the White House

• Korea, Communism, and the 1952 Election

  • The 1952 Presidential election hinged on the issues of Korea, Communism, and Corruption.
  • McCarthy's so-called "witch hunt," combined with national tension and weariness after two years of bloody stalemate in the Korean War, the Communist Revolution in China, the 1949 Soviet acquisition of nuclear weapons, and the early-1950s economic recession, set the stage for a hotly contested presidential race.
  • Truman, who as early as 1950 had decided not to run, had decided to back current Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson.
  • Eisenhower won in a landslide, ending 20 consecutive years of Democratic control of the White House.
  • Examine the role of Cold War issues in U.S. politics of the 1950s