McCarthyism was mostly aimed at democrats who were in favor of New Deal programs
Pearson was really putting the pressure on McCarthy
McCarthy not only attacked the flesh and blood, but literature suffered as well
Libraries became increasingly empty as thousands of books taken from the selves
Evidence was being gathered, and it was being speculated that McCarthy, and several members of his staff were active homosexuals
McCarthy married his secretary and they adopted a girl to cover it up
His biggest down fall was when he decided to attack Robert Stevens ,the Secretary of the Army
Eisenhower was absolutely furious by these allegations and decided to draw the line
On December 2, 1954 a censure motion condemned McCarthy and his evil methods by a vote of 67 to 22. He lost everything
McCarthy had been a well known alcoholic for most of his career and was found to have cirrhosis of the liver
On May 2, 1957 he died at the Bethesda Naval Hospital
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
Berlin Blockade went from June 24, 1948 to May 12, 1949
First major point or crisis in the cold war
Soviet Blocked western allies railways and automobile accesses to Berlin that we were under control of
We aimed to let the western powers to allow the soviet zone to supple food and fuel
Essentially giving soviet complete control of the city
Airlift
Allied attempt to airlift supplies into our sector of Berlin
Royal and US air force in charge of flying supplies in
Flew over 200,000 missions to total roughly 13,000 tons of food and fuel
After world war 2 germany was split into 4 zones
French British American and Soviet
Berlin happended to be located roughly 100 miles into the soviet sector
Soviet's zones produced most of the food supplies
In the eastern section the soviets forcibly unified the communist party of germany and the socail democratic party
SED leaders organized the established of an anitfascist demo republic
Meanwhile Soviet military ad suppressed most other activities
Stalin's Plan
June 1945
plans to slowly undermine the british position within their sector
believed that the US would withdraw in a year or two
nothing could possibly stand in the way of the united Germany under the communist control within the Soviet Orbit
Pieces of the Puzzle
was no formal writing saying that rail road and automobile roads were guaranteed to Berlin through Soviet sector
we assumed that they were soviets refusal to rail cars limiting to ten trains a day was temporary
it was a form of a domino affect
Berlin
bcame to center of attention by US and Soviets
Could only produced 2% of its food needs
Berlin was totally against communism
Marshall plan
we essentailly concluded that for europes sake a solution could not be delayed any longer
George Marshall annouced that America was going to help all european countries that were willing to participate
Offically called European Recovery Program but was known more as the Marshall Plan
Stalin believed we were trying to take over
Bizonia and Trizone
British and US occupation zones were combined to form the Bizona
later french would join and it would be called the trizone
even though these countries were there to discuss the future of germany the soviets were ignoring any decisions made
Little airlift
March 25, 1948 soviets banned western military and passenger air traffic between US british and French occupation zones and Berlin
general clay then ordered everyhting tp be halted in the trains transportation and transport it by aircraft which was labeled little lift
German used cigarrets as another form of trading
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