Today we did a brief review of Ford. Then we went back into the cold war project.
Senator Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism
-practice of coming to a conclusion without having any evidence backing up your decision
-it happend in the Second Red Scare of the US
-the second red scare happen after WWII
-many americans were accused of being communist or communist sympathizers adn were followed and quistioned by the government and commities
-tried to ease sugar rationing
-Mcarthy's treatment of Zwicker during that investigation caused many supporters to turn agianst McCarthy
-heavy drinker with a bad liver. Then he died of acute hepititis 4 years into his merrage
China becoming Communist
-Moe Zedong was the communist leader
-guerilla warefare strategic
-leader of chinese Revolution
-He was also and architect and the founder of the People's Republic of China
-mostly known for leading the communist
-Chaing-Kaishek
-first and third chairman of the Nationalist government
-strong member of the nationalist party of china
Chinese civil war
-in 49 the chinses civil war started between the communist and the Nationalist
-communist were pushing the nationlist back during the war which eventually seperated china into 2 parts
-it was renamed the Republic of China and the Mainland of China
-communist eventually took over almost all of china
-in the civil war the commusist wanted to be like the USSR and the Nationlanist wanted to be like the US
Great Leap Forward
-five year plan to get china more industrial as opposed to agricultural
Cultural Revolution of China
-Moa feard that people in his communist party wanted to replace him
-During the Cultural Revolution, there was alot of rape, fraud, murder and ect.
-Moa was worring people would forget who thier leader was
-it was basically was compleated by the communising of China
Nuclear Arms Race
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