The Red Scare-fear of communism in America
McCarthyism-Republican Senator that accused people of being communist; reminiscent of the Salem witch trials. This caused people to lose their jobs.
Senate eventually "censored" him and stripped him of his powers. 1950's
H.U.A.C.- organization that went after Hollywood for making what they deemed "communist"
Cuban Missile Crisis-Soviets put nuclear missiles in Cuba. US found out about them with U2 spy planes.
this caused a 13 day crisis where the US was panicking, and almost caused the US to invade Cuba
compromise reached- US wouldn't invade Cuba, USSR would take the missiles out, and the US would remove their missiles
Korean War-after WW2 Korea was split at the 30th parallel, USSR backed the North, US backed democratic South
US pulled most of their troops out
election was supposed to happen to unify the country
election didn't happen so North Korea invaded the South
Kim il Sung
went to Stalin and Mao and asked if these two would support the North, the leaders eventually agreed
starts out with the North pushing far into the South
UN gets involved and pushes the North back far into North Korea
as the US approaches the Chinese border, China gets involved and pushes UN forces back to the 30th parallel
an armistice was signed, but a peace treaty was never signed so the two countries are technically still at war
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