Monday, May 2
Cold War
- Second Red Scare
- Causes
- people being arrested, imprisoned, executed for spying
- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
- Iron Curtain
- USSR detonating the atomic bomb
- China becoming communist
- Korean War - domino effect
- Berlin Blockade
- Causes
- Alien Registration Act
- made it illegal to advocate the overthrow of the US government
- aimed at controlling communists
- declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court
- Joe McCarthy
- Wisconsin senator
- goal was to weed communism out of the US government
- caused panic to spread throughout the country
- downfall
- began when he started to investigate communism in the military
- Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy now
- Senate votes to censure him, i.e. strip him of his privileges
- died of alcohol abuse in 1957
- McCarthyism
- accusing people without proper evidence
- House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
- went after directors and actors in Hollywood
- believed that films were spreading communist propaganda
- set up hearing to investigate the movie industry
- US Test Hydrogen Bomb
- 1000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb
- Berlin Wall
- people fled to West Berlin for freedom
- USSR builds a wall in order to keep people in East Berlin
- had to pass through checkpoints in order to legally enter West Berlin
Tuesday, May 3
- Bay of Pigs Invasion
- before we gave Cuba their naval base, they had to give us a naval base - Guantanamo Bay
- invasion by anti-Castro Cubans to go in and overthrow Castro
- these Cubans left Cuba after Castro came to power
- trained by CIA
- we didn't do it ourselves because it would look suspicious if the US did it - like a big country picking on a little one
- we don't give them air cover
- Cubans are all captured or killed
- ultimately embarrasses Kennedy
- victory for Soviet Union
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- US military upset with Kennedy
- Cuba concerned we wanted to invade
- Soviet Union sends missiles to Cuba for protection
- Kennedy starts a quarantine of Cuba
- goal: prevent Soviet Union from sending more missiles to Cuba
- Solution
- Soviets would remove their missiles from Cuba
- US promises to never invade Cuba
- US would secretly remove our nuclear missiles from Turkey within six months
- Soviets Invade Afghanistan
- We support Afghanistan so they can fight communists
- Ronald Reagan Becomes President
- Ran on a very strong anti-communist platform
- Soviets had just invaded Afghanistan
- Perestroika and Glasnost
- causes Soviet Union's downfall
- gave more democracy, free elections, etc
- Berlin Wall Comes Down
- symbol of Cold War ending
- East Germans decide to walk through the wall
- mass crowds swarm and break the wall
- Boris Yeltsin - President of Russia
Wednesday, May 4
- Why did we win Cold War?
- we had close ties with Allies 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
- strong anti-communist presidency of Reagan
- Gorbachev's willingness for change and reform
- Glasnost and Perestroika
- admitted Soviet mistakes
- took blame for Cold War
- communist system had failed
- allowed Eastern Europe to do what they want
- Soviet mistakes
- invasion of Afghanistan
- ignoring social concerns
- spent everything on military
- Post Cold War
- 90s - world seemed to be a much more peaceful place
- no major threats to worry about
- Clinton closes down numerous military bases around the country, reducing the size of the US military
- 9/11 caught the US off guard
- Warsaw Pact breaks up
Thursday, May 5
Key Terms Test over Cold War
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