Today we had more cold war project powerpoints.
Policy of Containment:
-Domino Effect
-about communism
-if one country was communist then eventually all the countries would be communist
-Iron Curtain
-boundry between eastern and western Europe
-Marshall PLan
-European Recovery Program
-Goals: rebuilding war devastated areas, removed trade barriers, modernized industry, made Europe prosperous again
-Truman Doctrine
-would support Greece and Turkey with economic and militray to prevent them falling to the soviet union
-tried to stop or slow down the spread of communism into Greece and Turkey
-House of Un-American Activities Commitee
-created in 1938 to look into private citizens engagin in criminal acts
-main focus was to keep people from having communist ties
-Hollywood's Blacklist
-famous people who were thought to be communist
-McCarthyism
-accusing people of treason without evidence
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