Monday -
Cold War
- The Second Red Scare 2 1947-57
- Causes:
- Eastern Europe being split (iron curtain)
- URRS detonating their atomic bomb - 1949
- China becoming communistic in 1949
- The Koean War starting in 1950-Domino Effect
- Stalin's actions in Germany-Berlin Blockade
- Causes:
- China
- Mae Zedong
- Communist leader
- Chiang Kai Shek
- Non-communist
- Both start a civil war
- Mao wins
- Chiang flee to Taiwan
- Alien Registration Act of 1940
- Made it illegal to advocate to overthrow of the US government
- Required all non-citizen adult residents to register with the government
- Approximtly 215 people were indicted under the legislation, inncluuding alleged communists, Anarchists, and fascists
- Later declared unconstitutional
- Senator Joe McCarthy
- Accused people of being communistic
- Mae Zedong
- McCarthyism
- The practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence
- House Un-American Activities Committee-HUAC-1945-1975
- Went after directors and actores in Hollywood
- Believed that films were spreading communist propoganda
- Picked the Hollywood 10
- Puri Gargarin - 1961
- Franis Gary POwers Shot Down in USSR-1960
- Eisenhower Embarrassment
- Khrushchev - just a trick because it was actaully a spy plane
- Berlin Wall - 1961
- People were runninga across the border
- People tried to escape the USSR (east)
- USSR built the wall to keep their people in
- People were runninga across the border
Tuesday - Gone for golf.
Wednesday -
Thursday - Gone for BPA Nationals.
Friday - Gone for BPA Nationals.
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