The US Plan to Stop Communism

Read the action reaction chart and answer: Communist 1-4 Capitalist 1-4

Nuclear Monopoly Broken Bomb used as a deterrent until… August 1949=Joe 1 We have the bomb also!

Scenarios from Last Class Greece and TurkeyGermanyKorea

Germany 1949 Allied Powers united their sections of Germany creating an East and West Germany

Berlin 1949 We will supply Berlin or block off your access to Berlin.

Berlin Airlift June 24, 1948 to May 12, 1949

Region Europe Location Germany Place the events in chronological order Germany and Berlin divided Supplies drop from the air Russians block off Berlin Allies unite western sections

Berlin Wall Video Clip

Place the events in chronological order (Germany and the Berlin Wall) Wall falls in 1989 Germany and Berlin divided Russians build fence Germans cross into Allied section Russians build Wall Conditions for Germans horrible

Korea June 1950-July 1953 Video Clip

Region Asia Location: Korea Place the events in chronological order Japanese troops leave after WWII UN must interfere to maintain peace North invades South Korea split in 1/2 capitalist and communist US to commit troops to stop aggression No resolution still divided

Based on Past 4 Classes… Where was the Cold War fought

Read the bubbles and answer the questions Blue=US Red=Russia

Cold

Executive Order 9835: Allows FBI to investigate federal employees for security risk Local governmentsColleges Businesses Workers must take an oath. UCLA fired 157 faculty members refusing to take the oath

Executive Order April 27, 1953 Any criminal, infamous, dishonest, immoral, or notoriously disgraceful conduct, habitual use of intoxicants to excess, drug addiction, sexual perversion Outcome: Target homosexuals

HUAC House Committee on un- American Activities Target: Writers and directors of Hollywood Hollywood 10: Ten Hollywood creators blacklisted Herbert Biberman and others refused to answer questions in Congress about their communist beliefs. Some sent to jail

Joe-1 August 29, 1949

Senator McCarthy and McCarthyism 1950 I have a list of 250 known communist who are still working in the State Department

Wait I mean 81

Wait I mean 57

We need to investigate the Army

McCarthy Hearings 1954 McCarthy vs. U.S. Army

Senate votes 67 to 22 to censure McCarthy McCarthy dies three years later 2VQ

Jewish American Communists the Rosenbergs

New Scenarios China 1949Vietnam 1963ishCambodia 1975

China Falls October 1, 1949 I am Mao Zedong and I represent the people. I am fighting for the poor peasants! I am Chiang Kai Shek and I am a Chinese nationalist. Look at my allies Roosevelt and Churchill in 1943.

In 1949, China has Fallen! Russia has just tested a nuclear bomb! Do Something!!!!

NSC-68 The Kremlin is trying to expand. We should devote money to military. Increase the defense budget! Stop communism before if expands! 20% of GNP will be defense related

Impact US detonates Hydrogen Bomb 2.Defense budget increases 3.Arms race begins Long Term 1.Military Industrial Complex 2.In 2011=712 Billion 3.US spends more than next 13 nations

Region Asia Location: China Place the events in chronological order. US develops Cold War policies Mao vs. Kai Shek in civil war Communist gain momentum and win US supports Kai Shek Unrest in China

Vietnam Clip Vietnam Place the events in chronological order US replaces France French colony Geneva Accords split Vietnam 1/2 Japanese removed after WWII back to France Ho Chi Minh fights French French defeated

Cambodia Region Indochina Location: Cambodia Place the events in chronological order Civil war in Cambodia Khmer Rouge comes to power Khmer Rouge kills 1.4 million people including anyone associated with capitalism Khmer Rouge supported by the Chinese Lon Nol in power