Unit 1 Flashcards
Stalemate
Situation where there’s no decisive victory
Nuclear Triad
Long range bombers
Land based missiles
Missle carrying submarines
Revolutions
Noninvasive Communist movements focusing on developing nations
Nationalize
To put under government control foreign business operating in their country
Massive Retaliation Changing U.S. Foreign Policy
Use of nuclear weapons as a primary deterrent
CIA Used to Contain Communism
Covert operations to weaken or overthrow govenrments leaning towards Communism
Secretely influence instead of directly
Igor Gouzenko
Soviet clerk working in embassy in Canada
Defected and snuck out documents that showed Soviet Union’s efforts to infiltrate American Government on atomic weapons
Defected
Changed sides
Government Subversion
Soviet attempts to weaken America’s society and overthrow its government
Loyalty Review Program
Any suspicious activity can label you as a Communist such as reading certain books, traveling overseas, seeing ceratin films
People quit
Questioned without hard evidence
HUAC
House Unamerican Activities Committee
Asked to hold public hearings to expose Communists
Hollywood targeted first
Whittaker Chambers
Magazine editor and Communist party member
Blames Alger Hiss
Gets sued
Richard Nixon prevents case from being dropped
Produces “Pumpkin Papers”
Wins
Alger Hiss
Diplomat who attended Yalta and helped create the UN
Blamed by Whittaker Chambers
Sues him
Richard Nixon prevents case from being dropped
Convicted of perjury
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Seeminly normal couple accused of selling nuclear secrets
Ended in execution of both
Only Julius was connected
Project Venona
Program aimed at examining and exploiting Soviet diplomatic communications
Shining City On a Hill
Freedom
Democracy
Joseph McCarthy
Republican senator of Wisconsin
Made bold accusations without any evidence
Member of HUAC
Truman was a Democrat
Key Points of McCarthy’s Speech
America is losing
Enemies from within
Traitors are people with benefits
People in State Department who are known members and still working
Propaganda Animated Video Targeted Towards
Young people who may be vulnerable or rebellious
Uses metaphor
New generation is with America
How Does The Propaganda Animated Video Reflect Anxieties at the Time
Scared of no more freedom
Loss of Demoracy
Loss of decision
Baby Boom Cause
Decreasing marriage age
Desire of large family
Confidence in economy
Medicine
Gender Role Importance in Fight Against Communism
Embraced vision of society and familial values while Communism embraced gender equality
Levittowns
Large preplanned suburban communities
Little Richard
Black musician who heavily influenced the pathway of Rock n’ Roll
Marlon Brando
Method actor influencing others to become rebellious
Hugh Hefner
Founder of Playboy
John Wayne
Actor in western movies embracing independence
Audrey Hepburn
Actress and she embraced combination of elegance and individuality
Marilyn Monroe Divided Society How
Became a vulnerable sex icon who was questioned for her shallow femininity
How Far Did Shakin Hips Shake America
Shocked Conservative parents and created publicity to being rebellious and sexual
Covert Operation
Hidden operations with the CIA in developing countries
Eisenhower Doctrine
Add on to the Truman Doctrine
Authroization of military force whenever the president felt it was necessary against Comunism agression
Pan Arabism
The idea that all Arab people should be united into one nation
Creation of Playboy
Showed nice girls can be attractive and that sexual relationships to be normalized
American Bandstand
American televison show that demonstrated the power of youth
Gave young peope their own culture
Beat Movement
Ridicule to mainstream values especially with hip language
Viewed traditional values as stupid as it was materialistic and conformative
Communism
A political/economical ideology that advocates for class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owened and each person works and is paid according to their ability and needs
Claudette Colvin
At age of 15 refused to give seat to a white person even before Rosa Parks
Jim Crow Laws
Enforced racial discrimination and segregation such as seperating schools and water fountains
Grassroots Activism
Starts at local level with people advocating for their own rights
