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Senator Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism
-McCarthyism was named after jow McCarthy. is teh practice of making accusations of disloyal subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. it happened in the second red scare. it took a broder meaning by describing the excess of similar efforts reckless unsubstantitated accustations attacks on the character ot patriotism of political propaganda. Many americans were accused of being communists. Born on Nov 15 1908 afraid of communists taking over the US didnt want communists in the state development tried to ease sugar rationing. McCarthy treatment of General Ralph W. Zwicker durign that investigation caused very many supporters to turn against McCarthy. He'd been a heavy drinker and he had a liver failment. he was married for alittle less than 4 years before his death.
China becoming Communist-Mao
-Mao Zedong was the leader of the communist party. gerilla warfare strategy- hiding and firing on the opposite team and the leader of the chinese revolution.
- Ching-Kaishek was the first and the third clairman of the nationalist government of China. was a strong member of National Party of China. In 1949 the chinese civil war started between the Communist and the Nationalists. The communists were pushing the Nationalists back duiring the war which eventually seperated china into 2 groups. the 2 groups were the republic of china (Taiwan/Nationalists) and the people's republic of china( mainland of china/communists). After Kaishels army was pushed to taiwan the communists controlled most of all of mainland China. inthe civil nwar in china the kirominstang wanted to be like the US and they were also supported bu the US. The communists wanted to be like Russia. 5 year plan is known as great leap forward. the great leap is a plan that is an alternative model for the economic growth to the Soviet model. less food production. Cultural Revolution was mao feared that people would turn against him. during this there was alot of rape, murder fraud. concerned were becoming very estraged and he was worried that they would forget who they were supposed to serve. corruption was also a concern for Mao. Completed the communizing of China for Mao. Many thought that Mao shouldnt be in power.
Nuclear Arms Race-
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