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Senator McCarthy and McCarthyism
was named after McCarthy
make accusations of disloyalty, subversions, or treason without proper regard for evidence
it happened in the second red scare of the united states
fear of communists, and American traitors- second red scare
many americans were accused of being communist of communist sympathizers and were follwed and questioned by the government and comitees and agencies ( even thought they reallyk werent communist you can get questioned for looking suspicious)
propaganda suggesting the world will be taken over by communists- is this tomorrow poster
was very popular at first then jsut went downhill
finally sentate turned against him
always been afraid of communists taking ove rthe US
didn't want commmunists in the state department
tried to easu sugar rationing
the biggest thing was suspicion of communist infiltration of the united states government following a series of investigations and espionage trails
McCarthy's treatment of General Ralph W. Zwicker during that investigation caused very many supporters to turn against McCarthy
he started going after people in the military
McCarthy counter-charged that the Army was using Schine as a hostage to put pressure on McCarthy
this was when the sensored him
heavy drinker
after the senate told him to shut up he became a very heavy drinker
at first going after communists was a good thing then people started abusing it like senator McCarthy
China Becoming Communist- Mao
Mao Zedong- was a guerilla warfare strategist, poet, and the leader of the Chine revolution
he was also an archietec t and the founder of the Peoples Republic of China
Zedong is mostly known for leading the communsit party of China to victory over Chiang- Kaishek's Kuomintang
Chiang Kaishek was the first and the thrid chairman of the Nationalist government of China
was a strong member of the Nationalist Party of China
was in charge of the Chinese Nationalist Party in the CHinese civil war against Mao's CPC or the Communist Party of China
in 1949 the chinese civil war srated between the communsits and the nationalists
the communists were pushing the nationalist back during the war which eventually seperated China into two groups
These two groups are known as the republic of china (Taiwan) and the peopels republic of China (mainland of china)
as maos army was pushing chiang kaisheks army Chiang's army was forced to move to the outer island of China
One of these outer islans is now known as Taiwan
after chaing kaisheks army was pushed into Taiwan, the communists controlled most or all of mainland China
in the civil war in china the kuomintang wanted to be like the united states and they were also supported by the united states
the communists wanted to be like russia and they were supported by the soviet union as well
in january 1958 mao zedong launched the second five year plan
this five year plan is known as the great leap forward
the great leap forward is a plan that an alternative model for the economic growth to the soviet model that was focusing on heavy industry that was changed by others in the communist party
in this plane, peaswants were ordered to work on massive projects and the production of iron and steel
there were a lot of food production that was banned
grain production did drop
the red flag of Mao which was very important to the communists and the people that supported Mao Zedong
Cultural Revolution
Mao feared that people in his communsit party wanted to replace him
during this cultural revolution there was a lot of rape, fraud, murder, etc.
mao was very concerned were becoming very estranged and he was worried that they wouuld forget who they were supposed to serve
corruption was also a concern for Zedong
Corruption- dihonest or fradulent conducted by those in power
Mao was more worried about the people in his communsit party than he was with the forces outside of his party
he was afraid that they would repel from him and not serve him and do their own thing
culrural revolution basically compelte the communizing of China for Zedong.
many people that they mao should be taken away from power
so basically the cultural revolution was a movement that took place in th people republic of china
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