Boom and Bust Essay plan

 What were the strengths and weaknesses of the US economy, 1945-1989?

What were the significant developments in the US economy, 1945-1989?

To what extent did the US economy experience both success and decline during the period 1945-1989?

Intro

P1. War/ savings/ manufacturing power/ Marshall plan/baby boom

P2. Public investment Priming the pump (Employemnt Act, GI bill, Highway Act), Impact, jobs figures, interstate mobility.

P3. Public investment military, MIC see sample (pg384)

P4. Impact on Society, Pepsi Generation, consumer spending, suburbs Levistown but not everyone profit, Michael Harrington book "The Other America" 20% AMerican's living below the poverty line pg 396

P5. Growth of companies, mergers, and US advances (medicine, computers)

P6. Foreign Investment, Globalisation

P7. Decline: Deficit spending (wars, moon, tax cuts)

P8. Oil crisis's

P9. International competition

P10. Efforts to address and impact on society. 1-2 sentences on Nixon, Ford, Carter but 3-4 on Reaganomics, tax cuts and cuts to social programmes, works (raise employment and decline of inflation) but most new jobs are unskilled, low paid and the divide between rich and poor increase).

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