May 2-6

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

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