Cold War in America

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Cold War in America

• How the war affected Americans

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• The U.S. government was not only helping and
  protecting Western Europe from Communism, but
  also focused on keeping Communism out of the U.S.
• Sound familiar???

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Cold War in America

• Who is this man??
• What did he do??

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• Senator Joseph McCarthy was responsible for the
  2nd Red Scare (McCarthyism)
• He made accusations and charged regular people
  with being Communists or holding Anti-American
  views with no evidence

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• In 1950 McCarthy created a list of 205 government
  employees he said were suspected Communists
• Panic and hysteria sets in once again as people
  are afraid of being labeled as a Communist or
  Communist supporter
• By 1954 he charges the Army with being
  Communists and his public support faded

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• What about immigration?
• Many people from Communist countries were not
  allowed into the U.S. (Eastern Europe, Asia, and
  especially the Soviet Union)

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• Americans not only feared Communism but they had
  to be ready to fight it
• The Soviet Union tests an Atomic Bomb in 1953
  setting off panic in the United States
• The U.S. began mass producing nuclear weapons in
  preparation of a war with the Soviet Union (Arms
  Race)

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• Our war with the Soviets could not be contained
  on this planet
• 1957 the Soviets launch Sputnik. The first
  satellite to orbit the Earth
• The U.S. cannot be outdone so President
  Eisenhower creates N.A.S.A. and the U.S enters
  the Space Race A race to get to space to use it
  to your advantage in the Cold War

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• The 1950s are dominated by the government
  building nuclear weapons, restricting
  immigration, watching Americans at home and
  trying to get to Space
• Meanwhile the Soviet Union is making new friends
  in other countries