Cold War at Home
1950’s at Home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT_A9PFOY18
Cause Spread of communism and Soviet control over various regions in the world lead to another period of fear known as the “Red Scare”
Domestic Effects Truman enacts the loyalty review board HUAC – House of Un-American Activities Committee Senator Joe McCarthy – Red Scare Alger Hiss, government employee named a Soviet spy Ethel and Julius Rosenberg – arrested for selling secrets to the USSR, sentenced to death for treason
McCarthyism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sgom1snPaQ
“ That’s one small step for man and….one giant leap for mankind.” Foreign Effects Berlin Wall Hotline - direct phone link between US President Kennedy in the White House, and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in the Kremlin Space Race – April 1961 Soviet Union was the first to put a man in Space July 20th 1969 – US put Neil Armstrong on the Moon “ That’s one small step for man and….one giant leap for mankind.”
President Eisenhower and the Arms race Push for more powerful weapons US decided it should be first to create a Hydrogen bomb (67 times more power than an Atomic bomb) did this in 1952
Cold War Brinkmanship Created by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles Eisenhower Doctrine Massive Arms Race Soviets launch an ICB’s = Intercontinental Ballistic Missile into space carrying a Satellite US panics and establishes the National Aeronautics and Space Administration = ? Domino Theory Applied to Asia What countries?