1. Cold War at Home

2. 1950’s at Home

3. Cause
Spread of communism and Soviet control over various regions in the world lead to another period of fear known as the
“Red Scare”

4. 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

5. McCarthyism

6. “ 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.”

7. 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

8. 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?