25.) The "pig passing through the python" referred to the expectation that the oversize postwar generation would strain and distort many aspects of American life. This generation caused drastically icnreased consumerism, from baby products in the 40s and 50s, to trendy clothes and rock music in the 60s, to jeans in the 70s, jobs in the 80s, and so on, followed by products for their own chidlren in the 90s, and, predictably, Social Security in the 21st Century.
Truman: The "Gutty" Man from Missouri
26.) Harry S. Truman was called "the average man's average man". While initially very timid, he soon gained confidence to the point fo dangerous cockiness, and became notoriously stubborn. he once palced a sign on his desk at the White House that said "The buck stops here."
Shaping the Postwar World
27.) U.S. behavior after World War II, in sharp contrast to that of after World War I, was taking the lead in creating the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, important to war-ravaged countries, and supplying most of their funding.
28.) On July 28, 1945, the Senate overhwlmingly apporved the United Nations Charter. The Security Council was led by the Big Five Powers: United States, Britain, the USSR, France, China, and the Assembly, which could be controlled by smaller countries.
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