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18 And 19 Flashcards

1
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Truman

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Federal employee loyalty program

- Slightest suspicion could put workers out of a job
- Association with radicals was a cause for firing

Loyalty program

  • 3 million investigated,3k forced to resign, 210 fired
    - no positive proof ever foundwhat disloyalty in government
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Eisenhower

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Republican president 1952

Name means iron axe

Wife’s name is mamie

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Stevenson

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Democrat president candidate

“Ticket for you not just the few”

Knew almost impossible to beat War hero

Time to talk sense into America

One of most eloquent campaigns

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JFK

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Pres during bay of pigs and Cuban missile crisis

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Nixon

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Republican vp 1952

Went on goodwill tour in 1959 to ease tension between soviets

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Hoover

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Head of FBI
Believed 1/3 world populations was part of a great communist conspiracy
One of the most powerful men in US history
His name struck fear in many people

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Fuchs

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British scientist
Admitted to giving specifications for atomic bomb to soviets
Indicated the rosenbergs were involved

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McCarthy

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  • Republican senator from Wisconsin
  • Became strongest political power in the country; other than major party leaders
  • Accused demo arts of “20 years of treason”
  • Forced removal of communist books from libraries
  • Accused secretary army of espionage
  • Accused general zuiker of shielding communists
  • Showed himself to be rude and a bully
  • Condemned by state in 54
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Rosenbergs

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Charged with conspiracy for giving away bomb secrets

Ethel’s bro who worked on Manhattan project accused them of recruiting him to collect info

Found guilty and executed

Maintained innocence till the end

Recently released Soviet documents seem to confirm their guilt

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Chambers

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Time magazine senior editor
Told Nixon about Hiss
Has been a communist

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Explorer 1

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Americans first satellite

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Sputnik

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The successful launch shocked the world, giving the former Soviet Union the distinction of putting the first human-made object into space.

Launched by soviets

First artificial earth satellite

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HUAC

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House un American activities committee

Before World War Two looked at communist influence in new deal

After World War Two the publicly probed Truman admin

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Red scare

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Intense fear of communism

Causes of: spread of communism
Soviets and atomic bombs
Use of dead

Some peoples were looking to discredit FDR and the new deal

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Mike

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First us h bomb

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Bikini island

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Nuclear tests

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Pumpkin papers

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Chambers, pumpkin patch, investigators, microfilm

Micro film allegedly had secret state dept documents

Linked to hiss

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18
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Eisenhower doctrine

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Gave money to Middle East countries who wanted to keep communism out

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19
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McCarran act

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Illegal for American citizens to engage in activities that would create a communist govt

Communist had to register with federal govt
Not allowed to work in defense plants
Not get US passport

This was vetoed by Truman but congress overrides

20
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Hotel Taft

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.illegal Soviet spies coming to New York stayed her and were trained

21
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Hollywood ten

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  • Hollywood writers forced to appear in from of HUAC to answer questions of appeasing communism/
  • said the first amendment gave them the right to not say anything
  • Assault on film industry
  • gene Kelly, Humphrey bogart, Lauren Bacall
  • lots blacklisted and 324 were fired
22
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Highway system

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Creation of toll roads

23
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Bay of pigs

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Cuba

La Birgida ( exiled rebels from Cuba)

US helped

Disaster

JFK calls off air support to help

Castro captured some of them

24
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Operation mongoose

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CIA action 
Interrupt trade 
Raids by exiles 
Get rid of Castro
All else fails-kill him
25
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Cuban missile crisis

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Lasted 6 days

Ussr wants to put missiles in Cuba

Us blockades
Cuba
Soviets send ships there

26
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Public info and spying

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Us and soviets didn’t trust eachother

Legal Soviet agents collected info through newspapers and other public documents

Legal spies were in the us on official business

Illegal ones were not in the us on officially business and forged their way over with fake documents and names

27
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Problems-1952 election

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Korea= stalemate
Inflation
China lost to communism
Corruption in Washington

28
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1959 new states

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Alaska

Hawaii

29
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Pactomania

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Dulles
METO SEATO
fear of all Asia failing to communism

30
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Mutual defense treaty

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1954

Said we’d protect from communist china

31
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Another name for METO

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Baghdad pact

32
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Foreign affairs late 1950’s

Eastern EU

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Complex word problems had developed

 Worker strike in Berlin and Hungary where soviets sent troops in and squashed them
33
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Anti communist feelings

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People were worried that it would spread
The bomb was created
And spies were a big thingy

34
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Servicemen readjustment act

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GI bill
Designed to ease transitions from military to civilian life
Offered veterans benefits like educations and low interest mortgages

35
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Baby boom

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1946-1963

Lots of babies were born

36
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Suburbia

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Residential district located on outskirts of cities

Lots of people moved to them

37
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White collar workers pros

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Pension plan
Medical insurance
performance bonus
Expense account
Company car
Paid vacation
38
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White collar workers cons

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Basically the company owned them

39
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Operation paper clip

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Took 14 tons of paper and such from German science labs

40
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Gary powers

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U2 Pilot shot down over Soviet skies

Incident gave soviets proof we were spying on them

41
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Castro

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Leader of Cuba

42
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Hiss

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Member of communist party accused of being a spy
Had influential jobs in society an govt ( went to Yalta with Fdr)
Discredited Nixon during interrogation
1950 2 counts of perjury with five years

43
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Foreign affairs Middle East

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NASSAR (Egypt)
Anti west feelings
Arms dealt with ussr
Attack on Israel

44
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Foreign affairs china

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Mainland shells nationalist Chinese islands

45
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Foreign affairs ussr

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Warns us to leave Britain

46
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Foreign affairs Latin America

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Monroe doc.
Often assisted oppressive govts
Castro comes to power in Cuba

47
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Foreign affairs good will tour

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Nixon
1959
Ease tension between soviets

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