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symbolized idealogical fighting and physical boundary dividing europe into two separate areas from end WWII to end of Cold war
Iron Curtain side=east=council for mutual economic assistance run by soviet union
NON COMMY SIDE=west/south= European Community/Nato |
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President Truman's policy aimed at providing Greece and Turkey with economic/military aid to prevent them from being swallowed by the "red mist"
Aim was stated to be supporting free people from external governmental rule (invasion), but really was created to prevent greece/turkey from becoming a communist stronghold furthering the spread of the "red mist" which would have "grave consequences" |
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| (NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION): Group of nations aimed at world peace and security. Nations teamed up to protect well being of "the world". Very important because It unified many fragmented nations into a world crime fighting super power. |
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| 1948 truman doctrine step child created to provide monetary support to crippled European nations/economies. Created to prevent the spread of communism to post WWII destroyed Nations. U.S. feared that in the crippled state the "red mist" would expand it's realm of power. $16 billion spent over 4 years to help build markets for exports/ fortify broken nations. |
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| Document created in 1950 to outline National Security Strategy of the US and analyzed power of US/Soviet military,economy,political, and psychological standards. Pretty much aimed at destroying communism and allowing the spread of free will (democracy). US's legal form of saying we are going to kick your ass communist morons. |
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| Communist leader of Chinese revolution. Responsible for overthrowing republic of china (ROC/lead by Chiang Kai-sheck) and pushing ROC to Taiwan. Mao formed the peoples republic of china (basically a nice way of saying you are "red mist" suckas). Mao was the "democratic dictatorship" of the CPC. Although he was communist he did shift china from a farmer city to a industrial night mare. |
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| American lawyer, government official, author, and lecture that was a significant case of communist spy's infiltrating american government/politics. Case fueled fear of communist spy's and gave more validity/power to HUAC. |
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| exploited first eruption of cold war tensions. Truman doctrine, marshal plan, and the london conference (resulting in formation of economically stimulated west germany), fueled soviet union to block of all land/rail routes to wester sections. In the end MERICA prevailed and Stalin lifted the blockade. Stalin wanted to have all of germany as a stronghold, allied forces saw him as a ass wipe spreading his crap everywhere and fought for germany. |
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| (House on UN-american activities). Created to investigate un-American (communist) and subversive (james bond shit) activities. Many saw HUAC as a method of blocking progressive policies advocated by FDR. McCarthy had no direct involvement with the committee. HUAC was frowned upon because it had great deal of power (blacklist people). Alger Hiss put HUAC on the map. All the liberals hated it |
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| Republican senator for Wisconsin. Became figure head for anti-communist beliefs. Made claims that large numbers of communist/soviet spies and sympathizers existed in the US government and elsewhere. Made outlandish claims without substantial evidence which led to censorship by the U.S senate. Notorious for "McCarthyism" which stood for manic anti communist activities. He was the kryptonite of the U.S. red scare. |
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| Ethel and Julius Rosenberg |
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| American communist spies convicted and executed on claims of sharing atomic bomb info to the Soviet Union. Very crucial civilian execution for espionage. (the 1st). Brought communist spies to the news forefront. |
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| American public intellectual, historian, and professor. "iconic historian of postwar liberal consensus" Communist man who saw free government as a cage to life. Social darwinism is horrible.. etc.. |
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| American sociologist best remembered for "the sociological imagination" laid out proper relationship between biography and history. Disliked power/clas in U.S. and advocated political engagement over uninterested observation. (add some here) |
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| sociologist, attorney, educator. Felt that American higher education was too strict and single minded which isolated any patterns of resistance to education just being for disciplinary research, removing chances of true research (out of the box thinking. Education system and society promoted conformity which limited intelligence and ability to see/understand stuff from different aspects. (i hate these stupid fuzzy writers) |
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| JFK was amazing president with perfect family/life alike camelot (one of his favorite songs themed about that/loved knights of the round table as kid). View that Kennedy was hero of history. His wife said "there'll be great presidents again...but there'll never be another camelot" Many people skeptic of myth because he died with much of his presidency (ability to judge his rule) left. Appeared a hero to the public but had struggles hidden from public eye. |
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| U.S. government modified pledge of allegiance in 1954 to say the words "under god" to fight the fear of communistic athieism infiltrating America (god's country). Very controversial. |
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| John F Kennedy president from 1961-1963 assassinated. Only president to have won a pulitzer prize. Dealt with bay of pigs, cuban missile crisis, burlin wall, space race, african civil rights movement, and early stages of vietnam war. One of the highest public approved presidents. |
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| 1961. Unsuccessful invasion by CIA trained cuban exiles to overthrow Cuban government of Fidel Castro. Communist win against democracy, shows massive failure on America's part. Exploits the "red mist"/fidels tight control of cuba |
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| confrontation between the U.S. and the soviet Union in 1962 during the cold war. The soviets built nuclear missile bases in cuba in response to allied missile bases in UK, Italy, and Turkey. It was a mexican stand off with f'ing nuclear missile bases. We want them to get rid of their guns, and they wanted us to do the same. Was settled for Merica agreeing for public declaration/agreement to never invade cuba and to dismantle all the rockets on both sides. |
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