Monday: work on the video
Tuesday: work on the video
Wednesday: work on video
Thursday: presentation
Berlin Blockade
- In 1947 the three western zones of Germany's (US, France, UK) were united and grew in prosperity due to the Marshal plan
- The west wanted the east to rejoin but Stalin feared it would hurt the Soviet security
- In June 1948, Stalin decided to try to gain control of West Berlin which was deep inside the eastern sector
- Stalin cut road, rail and canal links with West Berlin, hoping to starve it into submission
- The west responded by airlifting in the necessary supplies to allow west Berlin to survive
- In May 1949, Russia admitted defeat and lifted the blockade
Cuban Missile Crisis
- 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
Berlin Wall
- Soviet's wanted the wall to keep people in
- East was communist
- West was democratic
Friday: we presented
The Red Scare
- 1947 - 1957
- Caused by...
- The Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Trial
- Found guilty of spying for the Soviets - executed in 1953
- The Iron Curtain surrounding Eastern Europe - 1945
- The USSR detonating their atomic bomb - 1949
- China becoming communist in 1949
- The Korean war starting in 1950 - Domino Effect
- Stalin's actions in Germany-Berlin Blockade
- USSR's first atomic test - 1949
- Chinese Civil War
- 1928-1937
- WWII
- 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
- Richard Nixon visits China in 1972 - Detente
- Alien Registration Act of 1940 - Smith Act
- Made it illegal to advocate the overthrow of the US government
- Required all non-citizen adult residents to register with the government
- Approximately 2-15 people were indicted under the legislation, including alleged communists, Anarchists and fascists
- Prosecutions under the Smith Act continued until the Supreme court decision declared it unconstitutional in 1957
- Joseph McCarthy
- McCarthy (1908-1957) was a Republican senator from Wisconsin
- In 1950, he gave a speech where he claimed to have 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
- His downfall
- McCarthy's downfall finally began in October of 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's movement needed to be stopped
- In late 1954, the Senate voted to censure 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
- The 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 a $1,000 fine
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