Today we finished blog discussions for people that were gone.. and continued Cold War presentations..
Causes of the Cold War:
The Cold war happened in 1945 and 1990
-United States v. Soviet Union
-Democrats v. Communists
-Major causes were the differences in Governments. We were democratic and the soviet union was communist.
Free trade was an issue. Rivalry of power was an issue. We eached wanted the majority of the power. To see who could control the world with their government.
-Germany was split into 4 parts.
-We controlled the West and the Soviet Union controlled the East, this was the turning point in starting the Cold war
-Soviet Union didnt like the Truman Doctrine because they felt it was aimed at them because they were communist. Marshall Plan was rebuilding the European Countries
- The A bomb was a big one. Their were fears that we would attack each other.
-Truman didnt like Stalin thought he was agressive, not easy to get along with..
The differences in opinion was a big one. Opposite governments. We were all about freedom they wanted absolute control...
Policy of Containment:
-The domio effect: took place during 1950s and 1980s
- The effect was mainly about communism
-It says that if one country has communism as there government then the countries surrounding it will be become communist
-Iron Curtain Speech: it was the speech that was said by Winston Churchill.
-Said March 5th 1946
-He used the term Iron Curtain in his address
-It was a splitting between Europe ( East and West) (communist east, democratic west)
-Marshall Plan: it was officially called the European Recovery Act
-Established June 5th
-This program was a large scale program economic America if cash grants to Europe with repayment of the money.
-Goals were: rebuilding a war devestated region, removing trade barriers, modernrizing industy, and making Europe prosperous again from WWII. To ensure Europe didnt turn to being communist.
-Truman Doctrine:
-set up by Truman on March 12th 1947
- basically stated that the US would support Greece and Turkey with the economic and military aid to prevent them from falling to the SU.
-Mainly aimed to get rid of communism or to help it from spreading Greece and Turkey
-supported by the republicans, they had control of congress
-The Truman Doctrine was informally the blame for the cold war
House of Un- American Activites Committee: (HUAC)
-committee was created in 1938 to look into private citizens engaging in criminal acts against the US
-Main focus is keeping people from having communist ties
-famous people who were accused of being communist
-Them members of the HUAC are very determined to find communists and communust sympathizers by pressuring witnesses to give up the names of those who are communist
-witnesses who did not give the information needed were held in contempt of congress
-Joe mccarthey used HUAC ideas so he blamed them for communism
-McCarthyism was accusing people of treason without evidence.. this era was known as the second Red scare
-the 2nd red scare was the fear of communists spying on our government
-another fear was the soviet union attacking us with the A bomb
-the red scare helped minimize the communists in our country because they knew we were after them
-the HACU became less important by the 1960s
-in 1975 it ended
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