The Continuing Cold War
Chapter 19, section 4
Setting the Scene
2nd Red Scare
1950 - McCarthy’s List
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_______________ Communists working for the US government
o Actually people who had been investigated under Truman’s _____________ _______________
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Used this list to catapult himself to ________________ (he was a nobody rookie senator before this)
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Uses ________________ ________________ to intimidate his opponents
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Even Went after George Marshall
o “a conspiracy so immense and an infamy so black as to dwarf any previous venture in the history
of man”
1953 Reelected to the Senate
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Made _______________ of the Senate Subcommittee to investigate Communist Influence in the US
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Being accused by McCarthy’s committee ruins many _______________ and _________________
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Many Senators were afraid to stand up to him for fear of being branded a “_________________”
(communist sympathizer)
o Margaret Chase Smith – “Declaration of Conscience”
1954 – McCarthy’s aid is drafted into the Army.
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McCarthy accuses the Army of being “_______________ with Communists”
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Senate Sub-Committee votes to investigate the Army, Democrats ask to televise the ________________
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Americans are shocked to see McCarthy ______________ and _________________ witnesses
o McCarthy is exposed as a ____________ and loses all _____________, and the Senate
condemns him.
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McCarthy accuses the Senate of being Communists
Edward R. Murrow
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Journalist who tried to expose McCarthy as a fraud on his program “_______________________”
Effects of McCarthyism:
The US went through an extensive period of suppression of free speech and open debate. ***IT WAS
__________________ TO HAVE A ________________________ OPINION***
The Cold War in the 1950’s
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Many policy makers in Washington wanted to “______________________” Communism
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Eisenhower knew that open war with the Soviets could be __________________
o Did not aid the ___________________ (1954) ________________ (1956) or the
________________ (1956) in uprisings against the Soviets
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Ends the war in Korea
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Aid to France who is trying to hold on to on of their colonies, _______________________________
Middle East
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Creation of _______________ and Palestine in _______ are a major cause of tension in the Middle East
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Eisenhower struggles to keep _________________ nations from falling under Communist influence
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Overthrow the temporary Iranian government; reinstate the ____________________ Shah of Iran
o Eisenhower Doctrine – Support any country in the Middle East that was attempting to resist the
influence of Communism
Latin America
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We (CIA) overthrow the _________________ Government that was too radical for our tastes
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We invade Nicaragua and Honduras to help “____________” two unpopular (but pro-American) leaders
Arms Race
1953 – We test our first __________________ bomb
1954 – Soviets test their first thermonuclear bomb
1954 – We test 19 thermonuclear bombs
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The US government believes in a policy of _______________. We will become so strong, no one will
attack us
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____________________ – the ability to go the very edge of open war to achieve political goals
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____________________ – since we had much better planes to deliver our bombs, the Soviets began to
develop missiles
1957 – Soviets use an ICBM to launch _______________________. Americans realize that they now have the
ability to launce a missile at the US from the USSR
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U2 spy plane is shot down
***Both Sputnik and the U2 incident show that we are ________________ behind the soviets in
_______________ research.***