Monday 20th - worked on song
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Tuesday 21st - worked on song
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Wednesday 22nd - took some notes, worked on song
Germany was split into 4 zones'
west Germany was prospering
east Germany was failing to prosper
1948 - 3 western controlled zones of Germany's were united and grew in prosperity due to the Marshal Plan
The west wanted the east to rejoin but Stalin feared it would hurt soviet security
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
Happened 3 years after the war
Cold War was a war of strategy - like chess
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Thursday 23rd -
Presented the Red Scare Song
McCarthy took advantage of the Red Scare
He was powerful for a couple years
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg: Spies for the Soviets - got executed in 1953. He was a spy - made Ethel a spy too (assumption - later known)
Causes: Iron Curtain surrounding Eastern Europe (1945), USSR detonating their atomic bomb (1949), China becoming communist (1949), Korean war starting in 1950 - Domino Effect, Stalin's actions in Germany-Berlin Blockade
Chinese Civil War (1928 - 1937)
WW2 Happens later (1946 - 1950)
Japan invades China during WW2
Mao Zedong and the communist 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 (easing of tensions)
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
Approx. 215 people were indicted under the legislation including alleged communists, anarchists, and fascists
Prosecutions under the Smith Act continued until the Supreme Court decision declared law unconstitutional until 1957
McCarthy went after the military first
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Friday 24th -
Bay of Pigs - April 1961
The compromise: Soviets remove their missiles from Cuba, US would promise to never invade Cuba, US secretly removes nukes from Turkey-6 months
Berlin Wall - 1961 - showed that we are the losing side and no one wants them, they built a wall so the USSR could keep people inside
Kids played on the west side of the wall in the 60's - it wasn't free to cross, had to go through check-points - couldn't cross for fun
If someone tried to escape by taking down the wall, jump from a window next to the wall, or jump over it, they would get shot and killed
People in Berlin demanded for the wall to be taken down - June 1987
Reagan was noticed for taking the wall down - Nov. 9th, 1989 the wall comes down
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