The first thing we did was talked a little bit about Ford (Gerald)(the president). After that we got back into the Cold War Projects.
Policy of Containment
Domino Effect
-took place durring 50s and 80s
-mainly about communism
-says that if one country falls to communism then more countrys will fallow.
Iron Curtain Speech
-said by winston churchill
-march 15, 1946
-a split between Europe (not an actuall wall) (figurative)
Marshall Plan
-officially called teh European Rocovery Act
-was a large-scale economic of America Program if cash grants to Europe with repayment of the money
-goals
-Rebuilding a war devistated region
-Removing trade barriers
-Modernizing industry
-Making Europe prosperouse agian (we did this becuase we feared communism spreading)
-replaced by the Mutual security act
Truman Doctrine
-stated that the US would support greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to porevent them from falling to the USSR
-aimed at trying to get rid of communism to Greece and Turkey
-supported by congress
-sent 400 million dollars but no troops
-helped end the communist threat
House fo Un-American Activities Commity
-created to look onto private citizens engaging in criminal acts agianst the US
-main focus is to keep people from having communist ties
-famous people were accused of being communist
-witnesses who did not give info needed were held in contempt of congress
-MacCartyism was accusing poeple of treason without any evedence
-this era in time was know as the red scare
-the second red scare was the fear of communist spying on our government
-another fear the US had was the USSR using atomic bombs on the US
-red scare made communisty in the US lay low
-the HAUC was less important by the 60's
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