McCarthyism/ Truman era
backround
McCarthy US Senator
1950 McCarthy makes speech saying that 205 members of the communist party were working for the State Department
for the next two years McCarthy´s accusation came one after another against many democrats, as the new president Eisenhower was Republican, McCarthy gained prestige
when McCarthy suggested communism had inflitrated the Army, Eisenhower attacked, forbidding any member of his administration form testifying
impact
impacts on domestic policies
attack on TRuman, his adminitstrarion and the Democratic party
president Eisenhower´s election in 1952
McCarthy´s downfal 1954, accused of harboring communists
impact on foreign policy
non-recognition of the PRC
NS-69 in 1949
McCarthy blames TRuman for lack of action as North Korea attakes South Korea, pressure on TRuman to be less ´soft on communism
ímpact on culture in the US
children had to prepare for possible nuclear attacks, parents bought backyard bomb shelters
the Korean War lad a little to desegragation, as segregation had existed in the Army but nor in the Korean War
religion gained importance, millions of listeners gathered to hear Bishop Sheen denounce communism
Truman era of containment
reasons for containment
the Long Telegran
Churchhill´s Iron Curtain speech
Truman Doctrinen1947
Truman doctrine ended in Marshall plan-< economic support to rebuild war torn Europe up again
implication for the International situation
Berlin Airlift
RIO conference
Latin America wanted Aid, Truman wanted collective security
Rio treaty agreed that if one member state was attacked it was an attack on all, Latin America disappointed
Organisation of American States 1948
its purpose waas hemispheric sooperation and solidarity, members pleged to fight communism in thei hemisphere
NATO-> created in response to the Berlin Blockade, also led to the creation of the FRG and the BDR, led to counter organisation Warsaw pact
NSC-68
Korean War, US advocated to the UN to defend South Korea, USSR not present to throw in their veto
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containment and Canada
Igor Gouzenko spy affair on containment
acceptacnce of containment principles
support for Marshall plan once US confirmed Europe could use Marshall plan to buy Canadian goods
he was a soviet spy stationed in Ottawa in the second world War
Gouzenko had proof that the USSR had been spying on its allied, the US and Britain
the soviets had built themselves an espionage center in Ottawa
Gouzenko was a cipher who decoded and coded messages
he did not want to leave Canada for the USSR,which he had to so he gathered document which could be of interest to the Canadians
this affair resulted in mistrust from Canada