May 2-6

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Monday- Cold War

Tuesday- Cold War

Wednesday- Cold War

Thursday- Decades Projects

Friday-

Berlin Crisis 1

• Stalin setup wall to keep US out of his quadrant
  • US began air dropping supplies into Berlin
  • Stalin eventually backed down
    • Didn't want war 
    • Made a path for US to bring supplies into Berlin

The Second Red Scare 1947-1957

• Causes
  • Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Trial
    • Found guilty of spying for the soviets
    • executed in 1953
  • Iron Curtain surrounding eastern Europe-1945
  • 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

The 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
  • Prosecutions under the Smith Act continued until the supreme court voted it unconstitutional '

McCarthy and McCarthyism

• Joesph McCarthy
  • Republican Senator from Wisconsin
  • In 1950 gave speech that claimed he knew 205 Communists in the state department
• McCarthy's Downfall
  • October 1953
  • Started to investigate communist infiltration into the military
    • This was the end for President Dwight D. Eisenhower
      • Realized McCarthy's movement needed to be stopped
  • 1954- the Senate voted to censor him for his conduct and to strip him of his privileges
  • McCarthy died 3 years later from alcoholism 
• McCarthyism
  • The practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper evidence 

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
  • Each man was found guilty and sentenced to spend a year in prison and pay $1,000 fine

US Test Hydrogen Bomb 195

• 1952
• 1000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb

Space Race

1957

• USSR Launches Sputnik

1961

• Yuri Gagarin
  • First Man in space
  • From Soviet Union

Francis Gary Powers

• Spy plane
• Shot down in USSR 1960
• Caught Eisenhower in a huge lie
  • Said it was a weather plan

Berlin Wall

• Wall to keep people in
• Other wise people would leave

Cuba

• Fidel Castro overthrows Batista 
• Bay of Pigs Invasion
  • US military trained Cubans in Mexico to invade Cuba
    • Make it look like Cubans are doing this
    • US promised air support
  • US lost
    • US did not provide air cover
    • Kennedy backed out
      • Huge embarrassment

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Soviet Union sends nuclear weapons to Cuba
  • Cuba stocks 
    • Missiles with range to hit anywhere in the US
  • US quarantine 
    • US "blockade around Cuba
• The Compromise
  • Soviets remove missiles from Cuba
  • US would not invade Cuba
  • The US would secretly remove our nuclear missiles from Turkey within six months

Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

• Soviet Union invades Afghanistan
• Ends Detante
  • Peace between US and Soviet Union 

1981

• Ronald Reagan becomes president

1989

• Berlin wall comes down

Why the US won the Cold War

• We had close ties with our allies and the USSR didn't
• China started siding with the US
  • 1972
• The Soviet economy was in the shambles whereas the US's was flourishing
  • Huge Deficit 
  • High inflation
  • Corruption
  • Social problems
  • Shortages of basic needs
    • Food 
    • Housing
• The strong anti communist presidency of Reagan
• Gorbachev's willingness to change and reform
  • glastnost perestroika
  • admitted Soviet mistakes
  • took blame for the cold war
  • communist system had failed
  • allowed eastern Europe to do what they wanted
• Arms reduction act
  • Salt
  • INF
  • Reagan Gorbachev meetings
• Soviet mistakes
  • invasion of Afghanistan
  • Ignoring social concerns
  • spent everything on military

Post Cold War

• Peaceful Place
• No major threat to worry about
• 9-11 caught US off guard 

50's Decade

• Rock and Roll
  • Ushered by
    • Electric Guitars
    • Elvis
• Movie
  • Symbols of Rebellion
  • Introduced Color
  • Introduced better sound
  • Started to introduce 3D