Monday- Vietnam war project
Tuesday- project
Wednesday- present
Thursday- present
Friday- present
Red Scare-
- 1947-57
- Causes: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Trial
- Found guilty of spying for the Soviets-executed in 1953
- The Iron Curtain surrounding Eastern Europe-1945
- The USSR detonation their atomic bomb-1949
- China becoming communist in 1949
- the Korean War starting in 1950- Domino Effect
- Stalin's actions in Germany- Berlin Blockade
- Chaing Kai Shek vs. Mao Zedong
- We supported Chaing Kai Shek and Mao Zedong was communist
- in the 1930's the is a civil war
- Chines Civil War-
- 1928-1937
- WW2
- 1946-1950
- Mao Zedong and the communist win
- Chiang Kai shek flees to Taiwan
- Taiwan is who the US and the United Nations recognize as China until 1972
- Richard Nixon visits China in 1971- Detente
- Alien Registration Act of 1940(Smith Act)-
- Made it illegal to advocate the overthrow of the US government
- Required all non-citizens adult residents to register with the government
- Approximately 215 people were indicted under the legislation, including alleged communist, Anarchist, and fascists
- Prosecutions under the Smith Act continued until a the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional
- Senator Joe McCarthy-
- Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957) was a Republican Senator from Wisconsin
- In 1950, he gave a speech where he claimed to have a list of 205 communist in the State Department
- No one in the press actually saw the names on the list, but McCarthy's announcement made national news and caused panic throughout the country
- McCarthy became one the most powerful people in the US
- Supporters of McCarthy-
- Republicans, Catholics, Conservative Protestants, Blue-collar workers, Joseph and Robert Kennedy
- McCarthy's downfall-
- McCarthy's downfall finally began in October 1953, when he started to investigate "communist infiltration into the military"
- This was the final straw for President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who realized that McCarthy movement needed to be stopped
- voted out of the senate and soon died after that
- House Un-American Activites Committee 1945-1975-
- This 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 jail and pay a 1,000 fine
- Put on a Blacklist and was harder to get a job and get your movie produced
- Charlie Chaplin was the most famous of the blacklisted people and was forced to go back to England
- Died in 1977
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