Monday- Work on song/video
Tuesday-Work on song/ finish video
Wednesday-Record song and place into video
The First Berlin Crisis-
- Germany split into 4 zones
- Western Germany doing well, Eastern bad
- The West wanted the East to rejoin, Stalin feared it would hurt Soviet Security
- Stalin decided to try to gain control of West Berlin which was deep inside the Eastern Section
- Stalin cut road, trail, and canal links with West Berlin; starve into submission
- West responded by airlifting the necessary supplies to allow West Berlin to survive
- Russia admitted defeated and lifted blockade in May 1949
Thursday- Presentations over Cold War Song Activity
Cuban Missile Crisis-
- 1962
- After Spanish/American War Cuba got independence
- Fidel Castro took over in 1958 and got together with Soviet Union (Communist)
- U.S. tries to overthrow Castro; Castro asks Soviet Union to bring nukes
- First Strike Capabilities were given to Soviet Union
- The Compromise- The Soviets were remove their missiles from Cuba
- The U.S. would not invade Cuba
- The U.S. would secretly remove our missiles from Turkey
Berlin Wall-
- 1961
- Soviet Union built a wall because they know no one will be left
- They know no one wants their system so they build a wall to keep people in
- forced their system down people's throats
- People were fleeing for freedom, more job opportunities, rejoin families.
- People from East wanted to go West-all people wanted to go WEST
- Eastern Europe is Communist
- Western Europe is Democratic
- People who tried to escape got killed
- No Man's Land was between the east and west that would stop people from fleeing
- Checkpoints- Brandenburg Gate and Checkpoint Charlie-you had to go through these specific points if you were allowed to officially pass over (for business)
- 1989 Berlin Wall comes down-Cold War really ended
- One day the wall was super secure, then people crowded around the wall and destroyed the wall
Friday-
The Red Scare- USSR spies found leaking secrets-scared America/ America's fear of being overrun by Communists
- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Trial- Found guilty of spying for the Soviets-executed in 1953
- Causes of the 2nd Red Scare-
- The Iron Curtain Speech surrounding Eastern Europe
- The USSR detonating their atomic bomb-1949
- China becoming Communist-1949
- The Korean War starting in 1950-Domino Effect
- Stalin's actions in Germany-Berlin Blockade
- Chiang Kai Shek vs. Mao Zedong
- U.S. supported Chiang (Because he was anti-communist)-Mao was a communist
- 1928-1937
- WWII-China invades- Mao and Chiang work together to fight the Japanese
- 1946-1950
- Mao Zedong and the communists win
- Chiang Kai-Shek flees to Taiwan
- Taiwan is who the US and the United Nations recognizes as China until 1972 (Belonged to China until 1972)
- Richard Nixon visits China in 1972-Detente (Easing tensions between U.S. and China)
- Communist China became China-no longer Taiwan
- Alien Registration Act of 1940 (Smith Act)
- Illegal to advocate (support) the overthrow of the U.S. government
- Required all non-citizen adult residents to register with the governement
- 215 people were indicted under the legislation, including alleged communists, Anarchists, and fascists
- Prosecutions under the Smith Act declared unconstitutional in 1957 by McCarthy
- Senator Joe McCarthy accused everyone of being Communists
- McCarthy and McCarthyism (When you accuse people of something without proper evidence)
- Republican Senator from Wisconsin
- 1950-gave a speech where he claimed he had a list of 205 Communists in the State Department
- No one in the press actually saw the names on the list, but McCarthy's announcement made national news and causes panic throughout the country
- McCarthy became one of the most powerful people in the U.S.
- Supports of McCarthy
- Republicans
- Catholics
- Conservative Protestants
- Blue-Collar Workers
- Joseph and Robert Kennedy
- McCarthy's Downfall
- October, 1953- started investigating "communist infiltration of the military"
- Final straw for President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who realized McCarthy's movement needed to be stopped
- Late 1954, The Senate voted to Censure (take his power) him for his conduct and to strip him of his privileges
- McCarthy died three years later from alcoholism
- House UN-American Activities Committee (HUAC-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-Ten directors/actors that McCarthy singled out saying they were communist
- Each man was found guilty and sentenced to spend a year in prison and pay $1,000 fine
- They were Blacklisted
- Most famous Blacklisted fake name-Charlie Chaplin got the lifetime achievement award in 1972
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