The Domino Effect, Iron Curtain Speech, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine
The Domino Effect took place from the 1950's to the 1980's.
The Iron Curtain Speech was said by Winston Churchill.
The Marshall Plan was the European Recovery Program, or the ERP.
George Marshall was in charge of this plan.
This was from 1947 to 1951.
This was a large scale economic American program.
The goals of the Marshall Plan was re-building a war devastated region, removing trade barriers, modernizing industry, and making Europe prosperous again.
The Truman Doctrine was set up by Truman and the US would support Greece and Turkey.
House of Un American Activities Commitee
The commitee was created 1938 to look into private citizens engaging in criminal acts against the US.
The main focus was to stop the spread of communism.
Famous people who were accused of being communist, is the hollywood's blacklist.
The members of the HUAC were determineed to find communists and communist sympathizers by pressuring witnesses to give up the names of those who are communist.
Witnesses were questioned under a light.
Joseph McCarthy used the HUAC's ideas and began accussing people of being communist.
McCarthy was known as McCarthyism.
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