Today we continued to present cold war projects!!
Causes of the Cold War:
The Cold war happened in 1945 and 1990
-United States v. Soviet Union
-Democrats v. Communists
-Major causes were the differences in Governments. We were democratic and the soviet union was communist.
Free trade was an issue. Rivalry of power was an issue. We eached wanted the majority of the power. To see who could control the world with their government.
-Germany was split into 4 parts.
-We controlled the West and the Soviet Union controlled the East, this was the turning point in starting the Cold war
-Soviet Union didnt like the Truman Doctrine because they felt it was aimed at them because they were communist. Marshall Plan was rebuilding the European Countries
- The A bomb was a big one. Their were fears that we would attack each other.
-Truman didnt like Stalin thought he was agressive, not easy to get along with..
The differences in opinion was a big one. Opposite governments. We were all about freedom they wanted absolute control...
Policy of Containment:
-The domio effect: took place during 1950s and 1980s
- The effect was mainly about communism
-It says that if one country has communism as there government then the countries surrounding it will be become communist
-Iron Curtain Speech: it was the speech that was said by Winston Churchill.
-Said March 5th 1946
-He used the term Iron Curtain in his address
-It was a splitting between Europe ( East and West) (communist east, democratic west)
-Marshall Plan: it was officially called the European Recovery Act
-Established June 5th
-This program was a large scale program economic America if cash grants to Europe with repayment of the money.
-Goals were: rebuilding a war devestated region, removing trade barriers, modernrizing industy, and making Europe prosperous again from WWII. To ensure Europe didnt turn to being communist.
-Truman Doctrine:
-set up by Truman on March 12th 1947
- basically stated that the US would support Greece and Turkey with the economic and military aid to prevent them from falling to the SU.
-Mainly aimed to get rid of communism or to help it from spreading Greece and Turkey
-supported by the republicans, they had control of congress
-The Truman Doctrine was informally the blame for the cold war
House of Un- American Activites Committee: (HUAC)
-committee was created in 1938 to look into private citizens engaging in criminal acts against the US
-Main focus is keeping people from having communist ties
-famous people who were accused of being communist
-Them members of the HUAC are very determined to find communists and communust sympathizers by pressuring witnesses to give up the names of those who are communist
-witnesses who did not give the information needed were held in contempt of congress
-Joe mccarthey used HUAC ideas so he blamed them for communism
-McCarthyism was accusing people of treason without evidence.. this era was known as the second Red scare
-the 2nd red scare was the fear of communists spying on our government
-another fear was the soviet union attacking us with the A bomb
-the red scare helped minimize the communists in our country because they knew we were after them
-the HACU became less important by the 1960s
-in 1975 it ended
Senator Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism:
-McCarthyism was named afer Joe McCarthy
-Is the pratice of making accusations of disloyalty/treason
-It happened in the second red scare of the US
-Happened after WWII
-They put McCarthysim on commericials and posters, if you looked suspicious you were accused of being communist
-Joe McCarthy was always accusing people of being communist, he finally got turned away from the senate because he had no evidence that these people were communist
-Joe was always afraid of communists taking over the US
-Didnt want communists in the state departement
-His downfall was going after the military and he was saying they were communist when they were really heroes..
-He went into drinking he drank a lot! Alcoholism took him over..
China Becoming Communist
-Mao Zedong was Chinas leader of Peoples Republic
-Known for leading the communist party of China
-Chiang Kaishek was the leader of the nationlists
-The civil war started in 1949
-the communists were pushing the nationlists back during the war which eventually seperated china into 2 groups
-These groups were known as the Republic of China (tawain) and the peoples republic of china (mainland of china)
-Use that term like their standing up for the people (peoples republic)
-After China got rid of the nationlist they took controll over all of China
-in 1958 Mao launched a five year plan known as the great leap forward
-The food production was banned so they could compete with us and the Soviet Union
-Cultural Revolution: Mao Zedong was afraid that people would turn against him since he was communist
-Finished the communizing of china for Mao Zedong, corruption was threat to Mao
-lots of killing took place
-Thought people were going to forget who brought them to power
-People thought that Mao should be taken away from power
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