Aim: In the first two decades of the Cold War, how did competition on the international stage and a climate of fear at home affect politics, soviet, and culture in the United States?
Bell Ringer: Let's review America Voices 1-3 / Answers:
Q1 - They deemed him a security risk because in the 1930s and 1940s Graham joined the
communist front and subversive organizations, such as the American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom, and was honorary president for the Southern Conference for Human Welfare. They charged that he joined leftist organizations but not that he was a communist. There is no evidence in the documents that he was a security risk.
Q2 - Graham provided a persuasive defense by rejecting any support of Soviet communism or any other totalitarian regimes, including Nazism during WWII. He also outlined in detail the functions of the conferences, and organizations he took party in, emphasizing anticommunist, pro-labor, and New Deal-like social-welfare programs.
Q3 - Similarities include the immediate and dire threat to national security posed by any association with communist or left-leaning political organizations, the alleged government infiltration by communist spies, and the inability of the United States to stop the movement cause din party by communist sympathizers with the government.
Agenda:
***The development of the hydrogen bomb as an example of U.S. attempts to contain communism, stabilize the world's economy, and create an international security system.***
***Containment encountered strong nationalist movements in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.***
The Korean War
1. What do you know about the Korean War? (5 min)
2. Analyze map 25.2 (page 816)
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxaegqvl4aE (5 min)
https://www.history.com/topics/korean-war/videos (3 min) primary source
"Even in times of peace, the United Statse now functioned in a state of permanent military mobilization" page 818
4. Analyze map 25.3 (page 817) and Figure 25.1 (page 818)
The Red Scare / M
5. Review Journal 143 - What factors led to the postwar Red Scare, and what were its ramifications for civil liberties in the United States?
A: The postwar Red Scare was caused by the news of spies in the government and an overall paranoia about the Communist threat that was rampant in both the government and society. Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy played on this paranoia and held televised hearings to root out "subversives." In doing so, he kept the threat of communism present in the American mind. The impact included the blacklisting of people accused of subversion, an increase in general paranoia regarding Communist infiltration, a diversion of national attention away from issues of social welfare, and a decrease in support of civil liberties within the United States.
6. McCarthyism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N35IugBYH04 (6 min)
Cold War Liberalism
7. Review Journal 144 - Cold War liberalism included the core programs of the New Deal welfare state, the development of containment policy to oppose Soviet influence throughout the world, and the fighting of so-called subversives at home. But this was not a second act of the New Deal. Instead, the Democrats adopted a combination of moderate liberal policies and anticommunism. Cold War liberalism was embraced by Democrats because it supported organized labor, a key component of the New Deal coalition.
8. Add information that we learned today to Attachment B.
Terms to know: Yalta Conference, Potsdam Conference, containment, Marshall Plan, NATO, Warsaw Pact, NSC-68, Cold War Liberalism, Loyalty-Security Program, HUAC (House of Un-American Activities Committee),
Home Learning:
1. Read pages 826-834
2. Journal 145 - How did the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union affect disparate regions such as the Middle East and Southeast Asia?
3. Journal 146 - How was Kennedy's approach to the Cold War similar to and difference from Eisenhower's and Truman's?
4. Cold War Exam on MONDAY!
Enrichment:
1. McCarthyism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFHhqlfypOo (11 min)
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