Today we started presenting our Cold War songs.
After WWII Germany was split up into four zones. In 1948, the three western controlled zones of Germany's (US, France, UK) were united, and grew in prosperity due to Marshal Aid. The west wanted the east to rejoin, but Stalin feared it would hurt soviet security. In June 1948, Stalin decided to try to gain control of West Berlin which was deep inside the eastern sector. He cut road, rail and canal links.
McCarthyism- Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957) was a Republican Senator from Wisconsin. In 1950, he gave a speech where he claimed to have a list of 205 Communists in the state Department. No one in the press actually saw the names on the list, but McCarthy's announcement made national news and caused panic throughout the country. McCarthy became one of the most powerful people in the US. Supporters of McCarthy Republican, Catholics, conservative parties, Catholics, Kennedy. In the spring of 1954, McCarthy charged the US Army had promoted a dentist accused of being a Communist. For the first time, television broadcast allowed the general public to see the Senator as a blustering bully and his investigations as little more than a misguided scam. In late 1954, the Senate voted to censure him for his conduct and to strip him of his privileges. McCarthy died three years later from alcoholism. The term "McCarthyism" lives on to describe anti-communist fervor, reckless accusations and guilt by association.
Bay of Pigs-
Cuban Missile Crisis-
Berlin-
North Korea-
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