Monday- Forum post leaders talked about their stories Notes
The Second Red Scare
- Causes
- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Trial
- Found giult of spying for the Soviets-Executed in 1953
- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Trial
- Causes of 2nd red scare
- The Iron Curtain surrounding Eastern Europe- 1945
- The USSR detonating their atomic bomb-1949
- China becoming communist- 1949
- The Korean War starting in 1950- Domino Effect
- Stalin's actions in Germany
- The Compromise
- The Soviets would remove their missiles from Cuba
- The US would promise never to invade Cuba
- The US would secretly remove our nuclear missiles from Turkey within six months
Why did the US win the cold war
- We had close ties with our aliies and the USSR didn't
- China started siding with us after 1972
- The Soviet economy was in shambles whereas the US's was flourishing
- Huge Deficit
- High inflation
- Corruption
- Social Problems
- Shortage of basic needs (food, housing)
- The strong anti-communist presidency of Reagan
- Gorbachev's willingness for change and reform
- glasnost and perestroika
- admitted Soviet mistakes
- took blame for the Cold War
- communist system had failed
- allowed Eastern Europe to do what they wanted
- Arms reduction Talks
- SALT, INF, Reagan-Gorbachev meetings
- Soviet Mistakes
- invasion of Afghanistan
- ignoring social concerns
- spent everything on military
Tuesday- Watched 2 videos one on Fidel Castro and the United States attempts to kill him and the other on the Berlin Wall. Notes
Wednesday- Notes Make sure to study slides 1-74 slide 2 12-16 and 19-20 we do not need to worry about.
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