Nick
-Many Americans were afraid of communism
-100,000 Americans apart communist party
The House Un-American Activities Committee;get people to join the military or be communist
How?-through movies and propaganda.
-No movies promoting communism
; put the idea in Americans heads to all be equal( thought it would make them want to over throw the government) The people were sent to jail.
Kelsey T; Cuban Missile Crisis
-between Cuba, the US, and the Soviet Union.
one of the causes of the Cuban Missile Crisis; The Bay of Pigs
-the closest the US ever came to a nuclear war
Cuba had nuclear warheads facing the US
US had missiles in Turkey facing towards the Soviet Union
-JFK ordered SU to stop warheads.
-US wanted to quarantine Cuba
-Came to an agreement
-they got rid of their warheads as did the US in Turkey
-The US agreed not to invade Cuba again
Kody;McCarthy
-Was elected in 1952
-he said that the communist were trying to take over the government
McCarthyism was the attacks on suspects who were thought to becommunists
-Even if he suspected people were communists he had no evidence
- He claimed that the Democratic party was guilty of 20 years of treason for allowing communists into the government
In 1954 he accused the army. lost lots of support
1957 ; died of alcoholism and lonely
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