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The Early Cold War, Soviet security concerns, Korean War, "The…
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Soviet security concerns
Post WWII, Soviet leaders concerned about security
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"The Forgotten War"
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36,000 American soldiers died
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Communism
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Society is classless, moneyless
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Private ownership and capitalism must be done away with completely -- usually through violent eans/revolution
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Japan
If the US and Japan were enemies during WWII, why would the US want to be responsible for Japan’s reconstruction?
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The Sputnik Crisis
Due to the satellite, America makes NASA
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Americans developing long-range nuclear missiles
- B-25 bomber
- ICBMs (Intercontinental ballistic missile)
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Lenin and Stalin
Cult of personality
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in the Soviet Union, people must not question the leadership of Stalin
anyone who questioned Stalin he would sentence the person to a gulag to perform the back breaking work
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Decline of McCarthyism
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McCarthy accused the US Army of being infiltrated by communism & opened hearings into the Army in 1954
US Army lawyer Joseph Welch: “Have you no sense of decency, Sir?”
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The Baby Boom
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Families didn't choose to have children until after the war when there was stability for the two parents to start a family
Kids are expensive and as the middle class grew more and more families could start affording children
Interstate highway act
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40,000 miles worth of highways
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Suburbanization
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Combination of market forces, government actions and individual decisions
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Bipolar System Emerges
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United States
Canada, France, Israel, Japan, Norway, UK, West Germany
Soviet Union
Bulgaria, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Syria
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Marshall Plan
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Goal: build an international and economic and defensive network to protect US security and prosperity, advance US as a world power
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Germany
West Germany becomes a democracy, Free market system, allied with the US
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West Berlin, East Berlin, wall is built
I like Ike
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- Why would Dwight Eisenhower win in a landslide? - What would appeal to the American voter during the Cold War era
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Alger Hiss
August 1948 - Whittaker Chambers (former communist, Time magazine editor) told HUAC that Alger Hiss (former state Department official) supplied Soviets with classified US documents
Found guilty, sentenced to 5 years in prison
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Levittown
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some people feel a sense of alienation and isolation in the suburbs because it seems like everyone is the same
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JFK Assassination
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Shot twice along with Governor of Texas -- November 22nd, 1963
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Origins of the Cold War
Yalta Conference
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FDR, Stalin Churchill meet at Yalta
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The Long Telegram
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States the Soviet's goals, motivations, mindset.
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Lee Harvey Oswald
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Killed two days later by Jack Ruby, nightclub owner
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Capitalism, Communism, and Socialism
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