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- Goal= World Peace
- First try: League of Nations
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United Nations General Assembly |
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- General Assembly- all nations meet, 192 members
- 5,000 languages represented, only 6 official: F RACES
- French, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, English, Spanish
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United Nations Secretary General |
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- Secretary General- Ban Ki-Moon, Korea
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United Nations Security Council |
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3 Delivery Systems - Air- B-52; "fail-safe", always in the air
- Land- ICBM; Intercontinental Balistic Misiles, launched from silo
- Sea- SLBM; Submarine Launched Balistic Misiles, first-strike offensive weapons, only 5 mins to arrive
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Nuclear Arms Race Why have SO many nuclear weapons? |
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- MAD/ deterrence
- Mutually Assured Destruction
- NUTS
- First-strike: we attack first, don't wait for you to attack us.
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Nuclear Arms Race Broken Arrows |
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- Broken Arrows- failed nuclear weapons
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Nuclear Arms Race U.S. and Soviet Power Struggles |
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U.S. Soviet
- A-bombs, 2x -----------> Let's ban all weapons
- Build more A-bombs --> A-bomb
- Bigger A-bomb --------> Big A-bomb
- more -------------------> More
- ICBM'S -----------------> ICBM's
- Hydrogen Bomb ------> Hydrogen Bomb
- SLBM's -----------------> SLBM's
- Neutron Bomb --------> Neutron Bomb
- MIRV
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- MIRV= multiple independent re-enty vehicle
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| Goal of U.S. Foreign Policy |
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- Containment of USSR
- Stop communism
- Preserve freedom and democracy
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- Communists blockaded Berlin
- U.S. flew literally everything in to the city to keep residents alive
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- NATO- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- Comprised of U.S., Canada, Iceland, and 9 other Western European countries
- each member swoer to defend teh other in the event of an attaack
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- Warsaw Pact= alliance between the Soviet Union and other European communists
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- HUAC- House Committee of Un-American Activities
- leading anti-communist force in Congress
- Est. 1938 to investigate anti-American propoganda
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- Truman's statement that, "it must be the policy of the U.S. to support free peoples who are resisting attempted sunjugation by armed minorities or outside forces"
- Applied in Greece and Turkey, sent $$
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McCarthyism Senator Joseph McCarthy |
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- Republican, from Wisconsin
- Made list of 205 alleged communists involved in U.S. gov't
- communism is a serious threat domestically and internat'lly
- USSR, China, Eastern Europe
- need to eliminate communism completely
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McCarthyism Find all the Communists |
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- Identify w/ congressional committees:
- Called witnesses
- friendly- not com; yes, but not anymore
- name names, ex: Eliza Kazan, filmaker
- unfriendly- yes; plead 5th
- blacklisted- no more job
- jailed: contempt (disobeying judge); guilty under Smith Act
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McCarthyism Ethel and Julius Rosenberg |
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- Accused of Communism
- executed
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McCarthyism McCarthy's Downfall |
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- Begins to falter
- accused too many people of communism
- people begin to think he's crazy
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United Nations
Ban Ki-Moon |
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- Current Secretery General of U.N.
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- General of U.S. troops
- Presidential hopes
- wanted to drop nuclear weapons on China to end Korean War
- Pres. Truman says no, USSR will attack us, leading to nuclear war
- MacArther publically criticizes Pres T.
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Communism in China Mao Zedong |
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- Communist leader of mainland China
- Leads "People's Republic of China"
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Communism in China Chaing Kai-Shek |
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- Nationalist leader of Taiwan
- Leads "Nationalist China"
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Communism in China People's Republic of China
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- Communist
- Lead by Mao Zedong
- Mainland
- Recognized by USSR
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Communism in China Nationalist China
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- Nationalist
- Lead by Chiang Kai-Shek
- Taiwan, island
- Recognized by U.S.
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- Korea= peninsula off of China
- Northern border between China/Korea= Yalu River
- 38th parallel ultimately divides country into north and south
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Korean War Foreign Involvement |
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- U.S. wants U.N. to send troops
- "lost" China, can't loose Korea
- Troops sent, mainly Americans
- Chinese troops (communist) enter Korea from northern border
- Ultimately, a tie at the 38th parallel
- N Korea is socialist, S Korea is capitalist
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- Satellite
- Sent into space by Soviets before U.S.
- U.S. gets jealous, space race begins
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- First human in space, 1961
- Soviet
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- Spy planes
- Cameras on bottom designed to photograph soviet union
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