26.3 The Cold War at home
Peter Jacobsen
Key Terms
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Huac• House Committee on Un-American
Activities, it was created from a
congressional committee that’s
purpose was to search out disloyalty
before WW2. It’s so-called “claim to
fame” was in 1947 when it began to
investigate communist activities in
the movie industry.
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Hollywood 10• The Hollywood 10 was 10 men that
were suspended from, the movie
business when the HUAC accused
them of being communist; they
testified and were eventually sent to
prison because they refused to
answer the committee’s questions.
Key Terms
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Blacklist• A list made by the executives of
Hollywood, pointing out anybody
who was believed to have a
communist background. If you were
put on that list, your career was
essentially over because you
couldn’t get any jobs.
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Alger Hiss• A man accused of being a soviet spy.
The man accusing him was
Whittaker Chambers. Hiss was
eventually accused of perjury and
was sent to jail
Key Terms
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg• The Rosenberg’s were members of the
American Communist party. They were
involved with a case about leaking
secret information about our atomic
bomb to the soviets. They were
convicted and given the death penalty
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Senator Joseph McCarthy• From Wisconsin, McCarthy, looking for a
way to get re-elected, decided to add to
the concern about communism by
making multiple accusations about
communists in the government. He
especially accused the democratic party
of treason.
Key Terms
• • McCarthyism• The term for McCarthy’s
technique of accusing
members of the
government of communism.
After McCarthy publicly
made accusations on the
U.S. Army, he lost public
support.
Concern at Home
• Many were concerned when finding out that
there were many communists/Russian spies in
the country
• 80,000 Americans claimed to have affiliations
with Communist party
• Many believed Truman wasn’t strict enough
on communism in the United States
Fear of being Accused
• Many were afraid of being accused of
communism let alone actually being
communist
• Actors were afraid of being blacklisted, as it
would end careers
• Regular civilians were also afraid to branch out
and act different because that would lead to
people accusing you of being communist.
Key Events
• 1947-HUAC and the Hollywood 10
• 1948- Hiss accused of being a soviet spy
• 1950- Rosenberg’s given death penalty for
leaking information about nuclear weapons to
the soviets
• 1950-McCarran Act- outlawed any chance for
totalitarian dictatorship in the US
• 1952- McCarthy’s accusations
Two Nations Live on the
Edge
26.4
Race for the H-Bomb
• 1949-soviets explore first atomic bomb
• Truman orders the creation of a more
powerful bomb
• 1952-united states explodes the first
thermonuclear device the H-bomb
• 1953-Russia explodes a thermonuclear device
Brinkmanship is the way to go
• The us strategy was to keep peace by using all
its force against any nation
• This promise would insure peace
• What is this?
• Brinkmanship
• John Foster Dulles created this policy
The Cia’s “Covert operations”
• The president feared that Iran would turn to
communism because its economy had faltered
• So he sent the CIA in and they convinced the
shah or Iran to throw him out and replace him
with someone the west liked
• This protected Iran
• The CIA also operate against the government
of Guatemala because they believed them to
be communist
Soviet Union activities
• Created the Warsaw pact which was an
alliance with all the nations under their
control
• In Hungary Khrushchev the premier of the
soviet union promoted a reform minded
leader for the country
• But then when Hungary wanted to leave the
Warsaw pact they sent tanks in and killed
30,000 protesters
The cold war takes to the skies
• Russia starts the space race by launching
Sputnik on October 4, 1957
• The US begins to use high altitude U-2 planes
to capture images of the soviet union with
high resolution
• The last U-2 flight was shot down and the pilot
Francis Gary Powers was captured and
tortured
Americas leader
• Dwight D. Eisenhower was president during
this time
• He was a general in WW2 and strongly against
communism
• He created the Eisenhower doctrine
• What is it?
• It stated that the US would defend the middle
east against any attack by a communist
country
Key Terms
• H-Bomb-Hydrogen Bomb
• Brinkmanship-The willingness to go to the
brink or edge of war
• CIA-Central Intelligence Agency used spies to
gather information abroad
• Warsaw Pact-Military alliance between the
Soviet Union and the satellite nations it
controlled in Eastern Europe.
Key Terms continued
• Eisenhower Doctrine-Said that the United
States would defend the Middle East against
attack by any communist country
• U-2 incident-When a CIA spy plane was shot
down over the Soviet Union while trying to
take infrared pictures.
People
• Francis Gary Powers-The man piloting the u-2
plane when it was shot down over the Soviet
Union
• John Foster Dulles--Secretary of State under
Eisenhower
• Had an aggressive stance against communism
and negotiated treaties to prevent it
• Hated communism
Postwar America 27.1
By Joshua Smith
Key terms
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GI Bill of Rights
Suburbs
Harry S Truman
Dixicrats
Fair Deal
Dwight D Eisenhower
Readjustment and Recovery
• The GI Bill of rights was passed in 1944 it
encouraged Veterans of World war II to get an
education and it helped them buy houses.
• There where these new living areas on the
rise called suburbs which were residential
areas outside the city
Suburb
Suburb in the
1950
Readjustment and Recovery
• In the 1950’s the divorce rate became higher.
• The gov. had to cancel war contracts they cost
35 billion dollars.
• People started to spend more money.
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Economic Challenges
• When Truman was in office he inherited
economic challenges.
• 4.5 million people went on strike. Then The
workers slowly went back to work.
Social Unrest
• Truman Says “I am asking for equal
opportunity for all human beings… and if that
ends up in my failure to be reelected that
failure will be in a good cause” Truman says in
this quote that he is a advocate for civil rights
• The Dixicrats were a political party who
opposed Civil Rights.
Dixicrats
• This is a picture of a
• Dixicrat rally
Social Unrest
• Jackie Robinson becomes the first black man
to play Major league baseball.
Fair Deal
• Truman had an expansion of FDR’s New Deal
called the Fair deal.
• This deal has to do with helping people get
Health insurance.