Monday- Cold war notes
Tuesday- Cold war notes
Wednesday- Cold war notes
Thursday- Work on decades project
Friday- Work on decades project
Cold War Notes cont.
- the 1st berlin crisis
- 2nd red scare
- causes
- julius and ethel rosenberg trial
- found guilt of spying for the soviets
- executed in 1953
- found guilt of spying for the soviets
- iron curtain surrounding eastern europe
- USSR detonating atomic bomb
- china becoming communist
- korean war that starts
- stalin's actions in germany (berlin blockade)
- julius and ethel rosenberg trial
- causes
- alien registration act of 1940
- made it illegal to advocate the overthrow of the US government
- required all non-citizen adult residents to register with the gov
- about 215 people were indicted under legislation including alleged communists, anarchists, and fascists
- prosecutions under the smith act continued until the supreme court decision declared law unconstitutional
- joe mccarthy
- accused people of being communist
- senator of wisconsin
- made a list of 205 communists
- eventually started to accuse gov military as being communist
- people didn't like this
- he took it too far
- senate took all his power away
- most powerful from 1950-1953
- mccarthyism
- practice of making accusation of treason without evidence
- huac (house un-american actiities committee)
- organization went after directors/actors of hollywood
- blacklisted actors
- believed that they were spreading communist propaganda
- hearings to investigate movie industry
- hollywood ten
- each man was found guilty and sentenced to spend a year in prison and pay $1000
- charlie chaplin
- organization went after directors/actors of hollywood
- US test of hydrogen bomb
- USSR launches sputnik
- we were upset because we hadn't done it yet
- Francis Gary Powers Shot Down in USSR
- berlin wall
- built to keep people in east germany
- death strip was made to make it harder for people to escape
- bay of pigs invasion
- body of water near cuba
- goes terrible
- kennedy didn't want to make it look like the US did it
- didn't give cubans air support
- we traded to get them back
- embarrassment of kennedy
- Cuban missle crisis 1962
- cuba was worried they would get attacked
- the compromise
- soviets would remove their missle from cuba
- the US would promise never to invade cuba
- us would secretly remove our nuclear missles from turkey within 6 months
- why did we win
- we had closer allies
- china sided with us
- we had a good economy, unlike USSR
- USSR
- huge deficit
- high inflation
- corruption
- social problems
- shortage of basic needs
- USSR
- strong anti communist presidency of Reagan
- gorbeachev's willingness for change and reform
- glasnost and perestroika
- admitted to soviet mistakes
- took blame for the cold war
- communist system failed
- allowed eastern europe to do what they wanted
- arms reduction talks
- soviet mistakes
- invasion of afghanistan
- ignoring social concerns
- spent most money on military
- post cold war
- seemed peaceful
- 9/11 caught US off guard
- russia vs ukraine 2014-2015
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