Monday- Worked on song
Tuesday- worked on Video
Wednesday-recorded song
Germany was split into 4 sections
Western Germany did well east Germany wasn't in good condition
West wanted the East to rejoin feared it would hurt Soviet Security
Stalin Decided to try to gain control of West Berlin, Starve into submission
Stalin cut road and supply lines cut with West Berlin, Starve into submission,
West responded by airlifting supplies into west Germany to allow it to survive, Russia admitted defeated and lifted the blockade,
Cuban Missile Crisis- Spanish American war, 1898, Cuba got its independence, vacation spot for rich, Fidel Castro took over, Castro allies himself with USSR, October 1962, soviets put missiles in Cuba, We quarantined Cuba, Soviets would remove missiles from Cuba, US would promise never to invade Cuba, US would secretly remove our nuclear missiles, US would secretly remove our missiles from Turkey within six months, Nuclear war was averted.
Berlin Wall- West is free, East is communist, Soviet Union did not want to build it, People were fleeing from East Germany into West, Built a wall to keep people from fleeing, Berlin was entirely in East Germany, if you tried to escape from east Germany you would get killed, the wall came down on November 9, 1989, Gorbachev let go control of East Germany, Soviet Union fell apart into separate countries,
Second Red Scare- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Trial, Found guilty of spying for the soviets-executed in 1953, they were spying on the Manhattan Project, scared of Soviet spies overthrowing govt, Iron Curtain speech, Surrounding eastern Europe, USSR- detonating their atomin bomb 1949, China Becoming communist in 1949, The Korean war started in 1950-Domino Affect,
Mao Zedong- possibly killed 60 million people, wanted farmers to melt down farming supplies for steel, millions of people died of starvation,
Chiang Kai Shek, VS Mao Zedong, Civil War between them and their followers, Chinese Civil War- 1928-1937, WW2, 1946-1950, Mao Zedong and the communists win, Chiang Kai-Shek flees to Taiwan, Taiwan is who the US and the UN recognized as China until 1972, Richard Nixon visits China in 1972- Detente, USSSR and China were somewhat allies, USSR and China almost went to war,
Alien Registration act of 1940, (Smith Act), Illegal to advocate the overthrow of the US govt, Required all non-citizens adult residents to register with the govt, approximately 215 people were indicted under the legislation including alleged communists, anarchists and fascist, Declared unconstitutional in 1957,
Joe McCarthy- accused over 200 people of being communist in the govt, 1950- he said he had over 200 communist conspirators in a speech, caused panic and Red Scare, Became one of the most powerful people in the US, Eisenhower did not like McCarthy, Supporters of McCarthy- Republicans, Catholics, conservative protestants, Joseph and Robert Kennedy's, Communist infiltration into the Military, Eisenhower finally said enough and criticized McCarthy, McCarthy was removed from the senate, died in 1957,
House un-American Activities commitee, HUAC- Organization went after directors and actors in Hollywood, The Committee, believed that films were spreading communist propaganda, They set up hearings to investigate the movie industry, Hollywood Ten, Each man was found guilty and sentenced to spend a year in prison and pay 1000 dollar fine, many directors and actors were blacklisted, Charlie Chaplain, blacklisted in 1940s, made a lot of sympathetic comments towards soviets,
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