May. 4. 2011

More Cold War presentations.

 

1. Causes of the Cold War-

2. Policy of Containment: domino effect, Iron Curtain Speech, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine-

3. House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)-
  • Anti-communist investigative committee in the US house of representatives
  • House of Unamerican Activities
  • First Chairman- Martin Dies
  • Richard Nxon was an active member
  • Investigated public employees, private citizens, and organizations suspected of having communist ties
  • Went to Hollywood in 1947 to promote communism through propaganda in movies
  • Questioned movie stars and other hollywood people
  • The hollywood ten (people they questioned) refused to answer questions about their beliefs
    • first amendment
  • Went to schools to drive out communism
  • Students couldnt do anything political on campus
  • HUAC merged intp House judiciary committee in 1975

4. Senator Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism-

 
  • Accomplishments
    • Didnt do much his first 3 years
    • Was against death sentances given to German Soldiers that committed the Malmedy Massacre in 1944
    • Made claims of the people being communist
  • McCarthyism
    • refers to people who make untrue accusations

5. Berlin Blockade and Airlift-Brian-


6. China becoming communist-Mao-

  • Mao Zedong
    • founding father of the architect of the Republic of China
    • Was the Fommander of the Long March
    • Led the Communist party to victory
  • Shaing Kai-Sheck
    • Member of the Naturalist Party
  • Chinese Civil War- April 1927 to May 1950


7. NATO(beginning to present), de-Stalinization and peaceful co-existence-
8. Nuclear Arms race(1945-1970)-
9. Fidel Castro and the Bay of Pigs-
10. The Cuban Missile Crisis-
11. The Berlin Wall--Going Up and Coming Down-
12. Nixon's visit to China-
13. 1970's Peace Attempts-Detente, Salt I, Salt II-
14. Effects of the Soviet's invasion of Afghanistan-
15. Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative(Missile Defense System today)-
16.

 

Gorbachev's/Reagan's changing ways-perestroika and glasnost, INF Treaty-
17. The fall of Communism and the end of the Cold War-explain how it all went down-
18. The new map of Europe(up to present)-
19. Why the US won the Cold War-
20. Korean Conflict--
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