Today we continued with our cold war presentations.
Policy of Containment
The Domino Effect
- took place during the 1950s to 1980s
- the effect had to do with communism
- if one country has communism as there government then the countries sorrounding it will become communism
Iron Curtain Speech
- was given by Winston Churchill
- it was said on March 5, 1946
- used this term as his Sinew of Peach Address at the Westminister College in Fulton, Missouri
- basically is saying the world is split
Marshall Plan
- Calledc the European Recoveryi Program
- established on June 5, 1947
- a large scale economic of America program if cash grants to Europe with repayment of the money
- George Marshall created the plan
- the goals of the marshal plan - rebuilding a war devasted region, removing trade barriers, modernizing industry, making Europe prosperous again, and to ensure people didn't turn to communism
- he talked about the urgent need to help European countries recover.
- the pan was reconstructed and developed at a meeting of participatin European countries
Truman Doctrine
- setup by Harry S. Truman
- March 12, 1947
- basically stated that the US would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent them from falling to the Soviet Union
- aimed and trying to get rid of communism or to help it from spreading into Greece and Turkey
- was supported by Republicans which vhad control of congress
- they sent $400 million but no military forces
- this helped to end the Communist threat
- this was mostly the blame for the Cold War
House of Un-American Activities Committee
- created in 1938
- looked into private citizens engaging in un-american activities
- main focus is keeping people from having communist ties
- members were determined to find communists
- witnesses who did not give the information needed were held in contempt of congress
- Senator Joseph McCarthy used the HUAC's ideas and began accussing peiople of beingh communist
- he started what was known as McCarthyisim
- this era in time was known as the Second Red Scare
- this was the fear of communists spyig on our government
- The red scare made actual communists in the country lay low
- it helped minimize communist activity
- HAUC was less important by the 1960s
Hollywood's Blacklist
- famous people who were accused of being communist
- they were put on a blacklist
- this caused many directors and actors to lose jobs and not be able to find bussiness
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