-mccarthy's involvement started on february 9, 1950 by giving a speach about all of the people he knew were communist and they were going to find them and he didn't think they should be working in the government
-mccarthyism..
-ridiculous for ridiculous trials
-investigated for trials
-passports taken away, jailed if refused to give names
-writers, entertainers, artists
-total of 320 artists blacklisted
-literature
-few people spoke out against mccarthyism
-mort sahl.. comedian
-edward murrow.. reporter/broadcaster
-army mccarthy hearings..
-fall of 1953
-widely televised
-investigation army signal corps
-announced search for alleged espionage ring
-general ralph zwicker
-see it now, mccarthy and aide roy cohn demanded special treatment for g. davied schine.. being held hostage to not exert pressure to expose communists in the ranks
-popularity had been plummeting throught the army mccarthy hearings
-he attacked a young legal aide of jeseph nye welch
-hearings grew to an inconclusive finish
-lost the chairman of the government committee on operations of the senate
-death of senate mccarthy..
-fought communists until his death
-"pale ghost of this former self"
-suffered from cirrhosis of the liver
-alcoholism
-acute hepatitis- may 2nd, 1957
-democratic replacement- william proximire
-berlin blockade and airlift aka.. the first berlin crisis
-berlin blockade..
-was june 24th,1948- may 12 1949
-first major crisis of the cold war
-the yalta conference..
-split germany into four parts
-the four parts were the us, soviet union, united kingdom and france
-berlin was also split into four parts and they didn't like this
-joseph stalin did not like this
-he blockaded it
-joseph stalin wanted a weak germany because he saw it as a threat
-"can't be tolerated" "nothing but problems"
-truman wanted the opposite..
-trade with europe was important
-without a strong germany, other european countries will suffer
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