18 And 19 Flashcards
Truman
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
Eisenhower
Republican president 1952
Name means iron axe
Wife’s name is mamie
Stevenson
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
JFK
Pres during bay of pigs and Cuban missile crisis
Nixon
Republican vp 1952
Went on goodwill tour in 1959 to ease tension between soviets
Hoover
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
Fuchs
British scientist
Admitted to giving specifications for atomic bomb to soviets
Indicated the rosenbergs were involved
McCarthy
- 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
Rosenbergs
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
Chambers
Time magazine senior editor
Told Nixon about Hiss
Has been a communist
Explorer 1
Americans first satellite
Sputnik
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
HUAC
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
Red scare
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
Mike
First us h bomb
Bikini island
Nuclear tests
Pumpkin papers
Chambers, pumpkin patch, investigators, microfilm
Micro film allegedly had secret state dept documents
Linked to hiss
Eisenhower doctrine
Gave money to Middle East countries who wanted to keep communism out
McCarran act
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
Hotel Taft
.illegal Soviet spies coming to New York stayed her and were trained
Hollywood ten
- 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
Highway system
Creation of toll roads
Bay of pigs
Cuba
La Birgida ( exiled rebels from Cuba)
US helped
Disaster
JFK calls off air support to help
Castro captured some of them
Operation mongoose
CIA action Interrupt trade Raids by exiles Get rid of Castro All else fails-kill him
Cuban missile crisis
Lasted 6 days
Ussr wants to put missiles in Cuba
Us blockades
Cuba
Soviets send ships there
Public info and spying
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
Problems-1952 election
Korea= stalemate
Inflation
China lost to communism
Corruption in Washington
1959 new states
Alaska
Hawaii
Pactomania
Dulles
METO SEATO
fear of all Asia failing to communism
Mutual defense treaty
1954
Said we’d protect from communist china
Another name for METO
Baghdad pact
Foreign affairs late 1950’s
Eastern EU
Complex word problems had developed
Worker strike in Berlin and Hungary where soviets sent troops in and squashed them
Anti communist feelings
People were worried that it would spread
The bomb was created
And spies were a big thingy
Servicemen readjustment act
GI bill
Designed to ease transitions from military to civilian life
Offered veterans benefits like educations and low interest mortgages
Baby boom
1946-1963
Lots of babies were born
Suburbia
Residential district located on outskirts of cities
Lots of people moved to them
White collar workers pros
Pension plan Medical insurance performance bonus Expense account Company car Paid vacation
White collar workers cons
Basically the company owned them
Operation paper clip
Took 14 tons of paper and such from German science labs
Gary powers
U2 Pilot shot down over Soviet skies
Incident gave soviets proof we were spying on them
Castro
Leader of Cuba
Hiss
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
Foreign affairs Middle East
NASSAR (Egypt)
Anti west feelings
Arms dealt with ussr
Attack on Israel
Foreign affairs china
Mainland shells nationalist Chinese islands
Foreign affairs ussr
Warns us to leave Britain
Foreign affairs Latin America
Monroe doc.
Often assisted oppressive govts
Castro comes to power in Cuba
Foreign affairs good will tour
Nixon
1959
Ease tension between soviets
