Cold War (US 74-76) Objectives: TSW continue analyzing flashpoints of the Cold War: levels of antagonism. TSW compare the inequities of both the Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism.
United States v Soviet Union Truman Doctrine (US.74) In 1947, the U.S. paid Greece and Turkey large amounts of money to keep those countries stable. There was a threat that the Soviet Union would step in and take control of the oil pipeline.
United States v Soviet Union Truman Doctrine (US.74) It was now the policy of the United States "to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.” This was the first step in our containment policy.
United States v Soviet Union containment – retaliation & brinkmanship –domino theory – flexible response (US.75) containment – stop Communism where it is. retaliation and brinkmanship – pushing dangerous events to the brink of war. Just the threat of nuclear war would always make the other back down.
United States v Soviet Union containment – retaliation & brinkmanship –domino theory – flexible response (US.75) domino theory – if one nation fell to Communism, then the next country (geographically) would fall, then the next, then the next…..
United States v Soviet Union containment – retaliation & brinkmanship –domino theory – flexible response (US.75) flexible response – Kennedy’s proposed way of handling the Soviet Union without threatening all out nuclear war.
United States v Soviet Union Red Scare (76) As the Cold War heated up overseas, a great concern began in the United States that Communist espionage was infiltrating our government and our industry.
United States v Soviet Union Red Scare (76)
United States v Soviet Union communism in China (76) Chinese Communists led by Mao Zedong defeated Chiang Kai-Shek and the Nationalists supported by the United States. The Civil War had started before WWII, was suspended during WWII, then continued after the war ended.
United States v Soviet Union McCarthyism (76) Republican U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin - “The practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques, especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism."
United States v Soviet Union McCarthyism (76) Similar to the Salem Witch Trials, many Americans would be accused of being Communist, often without any evidence, and their lives would then be ruined by the smear campaign.
United States v Soviet Union McCarthyism (76) There was a great fear of Soviet spies everywhere, so paranoia took most of America off guard.
United States v Soviet Union blacklisting (76) Eventually, the American public realized that McCarthy was a knucklehead, as he even tried to attack the U.S. Army with his accusations. Video 3:54
United States v Soviet Union Alger Hiss (76) In August 1948, Whittaker Chambers, a Time magazine editor and a former Communist, told the House Un-American Activities Committee that Alger Hiss, a former State Department official and president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, supplied Soviet agents with classified U.S. documents.
United States v Soviet Union Alger Hiss (76) In 1950, he was found guilty and sentenced to five years in prison. The Hiss case was offered as proof that there had been Communists in high government positions.
United States v Soviet Union J. Edgar Hoover (76) First Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Was in charge from 1935-1972. He backed McCarthy in trying to root out Communists from the U.S. government.
Quick Review What was the “Red Scare?” Who was Senator McCarthy? What is paranoia? Who was Alger Hiss? Who was the Director of the FBI?