This collection focuses on the issues faced by the United States Government as they tried to convert the military and the economy from the demands of "total war" to a peace time arrangement, while managing the expectations of business, consumers, laborers, and the military. It includes documents covering the years 1945 through 1947. Supporting materials include photographs and oral history transcripts.
Demobilization and Reconversion: Rebuilding a Peacetime Economy Following World War II
Documents
1945
- White House Press Release, Statement by President Harry S. Truman, December 28, 1945 (NAID: 270627388)
- White House Press Release, Statement by President Harry S. Truman, November 29, 1945 (NAID: 270627262)
- White House Press Release, Address by President Harry S. Truman, October 30, 1945 (NAID: 270627120)
- Message of the President of the United States to the Congress, September 6, 1945 (NAID: 270626797)
- White House Press Release, Executive Order Number 9599, August 18, 1945 (NAID: 270626677)
- White House Press Release, Statement by President Harry S. Truman, August 16, 1945 (NAID: 270626670)
- Press Release, Message from President Harry S. Truman to the United States Congress, May 28, 1945 (NAID: 270626319)
- Cabinet Meeting Minutes, August 31, 1945 (NAID: 36714152)
- Memorandum from Federal Works Administrator Philip Fleming to Matthew J. Connelly, August 18, 1945 (NAID: 36714147)
- Memorandum from Attorney General Tom Clark to President Harry S. Truman, August 17, 1945 (NAID: 36714146)
- Cabinet Meeting Memorandum from Henry Wallace, August 17, 1945 (NAID: 36714144)
- Cabinet Meeting Minutes, August 16, 1945 (NAID: 36714143)
1946
- White House Press Release, Executive Order Number 9801, November 9, 1946 (NAID: 284839317)
- White House Press Release, Statement by President Harry S. Truman, November 9, 1946 (NAID: 284839314)
- White House Press Release, Address of President Harry S. Truman, October 14, 1946 (NAID: 284839224)
- White House Press Release, Statement by President Harry S. Truman, October 1946 (NAID: 284839195)
- White House Press Release, August 1, 1946 (NAID: 284838986)
- White House Press Release, Message from President Harry S. Truman to the United States Congress, July 25, 1946 (NAID: 284838947)
- White House Press Release, July 22, 1946 (NAID: 284838921)
- White House Press Release, Statement by President Harry S. Truman, July 11, 1946 (NAID: 284838875)
- White House Press Release, Address of President Harry S. Truman, June 29, 1946 (NAID: 284838798)
- White House Press Release, Message of President Harry S. Truman to the United States House of Representatives, June 29, 1946 (NAID: 284838790)
- White House Press Release, Statement by President Harry S. Truman, April 3, 1946 (NAID: 284838271)
- White House Press Release, Address of President Harry S. Truman, January 3, 1946 (NAID: 284837782)
- Cabinet Meeting Minutes, March 1, 1946 (NAID: 37469094)
- Cabinet Meeting Minutes, January 11, 1946 (NAID: 37249809)
1947
- White House Press Release, Message from President Harry S. Truman to the United States Congress, May 22, 1947 (NAID: 284840054)
- White House Press Release, Message from President Harry S. Truman to the United States Congress, March 19, 1947 (NAID: 284839796)
- White House Press Release, Message from President Harry S. Truman to the United States Congress, February 19, 1947 (NAID: 284839624)
- White House Press Release, Message from President Harry S. Truman to the United States Congress, February 7, 1947 (NAID: 284839577)
- White House Press Release, Message from President Harry S. Truman to the United States Congress, January 31, 1947 (NAID: 284839540)