Went over Projects
1. What were the goals for the US during the Cold War?
2. What were some of the major events that took place during the Cold War?
-Berlin Blockade/airlift, Cuban Missile Crisis, Red Scare/McCarthyism, Space Race, Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall, End of the Cold War
3. Why did the US go to war in Korea and Vietnam and what were outcome of those wars?
4. How did the Cold War come to an end?
Red scare mcarughtur
Joel Mcarthy 1908-1957 was a Republican Senator from Wisconsin
In 1950 he gave a speech where he claimed to have to have a list of 205 Communists in tge state Department
No onw in the press actually saw the names on the list
Suppoters of McCarthy
1. reoublicans
2. Cathikucs
3. Conservavite Protestants
4. Blue-Collar workers
5. Joesph and robert Kennedy
In the spring of 1954 McCarthy charged the US army had promoted a dentust accused of being a Communist
For the first tune tv broadcast akkiwed tg general public to see the Senator as a blustering bully and his investagtions as little more the a misguieded scam
Bay of Pigs
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