Movie tomorrow
Friday May 10- 20 forum post/daily blogs 4/15 – 5/20 due
Extra credit due by May 10
Red Scare/McCarthyism
- Fear of communism
- Joe McCarthy-Republican that accused people of being communist
- People who were questioned lost jobs
- HUAC- Nixon led this
- Rights were taken away
- Raise and fall was very quick
- Died of alcoholism
- Senate censored him (told him to shut up)
- Stripped him of his power o holding trials
- 1951- He was top of the world
- 1957 or 1958- he died
- accused soldiers
Cuban Missal Crisis
- Soviets had nuclear missals in cuba
- closer range to attack
- Bay a Pigs made cubans worried
- gave USSR and Cubans first strike capablity
- First strike capability
- made it so that they could strike first
- spy planes to photographs showing the bombs
- compromise reached
- Hours before invading Cuba
- Compromise was USSR pull there bombs out of Cuba, US wouldn't invade Cuba, under the table we would pull missal out of Turkey
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