HIST 106 1nd Edition Lecture 18 Outline of Last Lecture I Overview of the 1950 s Outline of Current Lecture I II III Anti Communism in the 1950 s Vietnam War Cuban Missile Crisis Current Lecture Anti Communism at a Cultural Level in the 1950 s The Soviet Union successfully tested the atomic bomb in 1949 o This shakes American s confidence Truman authorizes the development of hydrogen bomb 1940 s communists take over China o Reinforces US fears that communism is taking over o US reinforces Truman doctrine Government creates propaganda films to show public what to do in case of attack o Bert the Turtle teaches kids what to do People in the panhandle would interview kids about their parents trying to find out if they were communist Russia sent the first satellite into space Sputnik o This increased the US fear Rosenberg Case o Julius and Ethel were sentenced to death for atomic spying in the US o Ethel was later found to have not been involved House of Un American Activities Committee o Accused people of being communists McCarthy spear headed the investigation of communists activity in the US Rocky and Bullwinkle taught children to fear Communists Movies were made about fighting Communists o Star Wars o Rocky IV These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute o Godzilla Kennedy Administration o There is a threat that soviet missiles able to hit the US o JFK promises he s not going to invade Cuba as long as they move missiles that are in Cuba Mid 1950 s o 1954 Supreme Court issues Brown v Board of Education decision stating separate IS NOT equal o 1955 Rosa Parks a black women sat in the front of a bus and was arrested o 1956 1959 Flat University Students would hold sit ins Black students sit in drugstores restaurant and would wait to be served if they were not served they would stay seated all day Rexall and others decided to just serve blacks o Black Like Me came out in 1959 o 1954 1956 High school college students are starting to wonder about hypocrisy of the government Government is telling them one thing but doing another thing o 1956 Rebel Without a Cause was a movie about the government Vietnam War o Starts in 1954 while everything is going on o French loses control of holdings in Vietnam o Battle of French army appeal to US to aid o US decides to take over for the French want French to get into NATO o US takes over Vietnam on 1954 Pres Eisenhower says this is foolish o 1960 US has nearly 1000 advisor in Vietnam o Turning point The election of a new President Eisenhower ends presidency in 1960 Election is against Richard Nixon v JFK JFK wins Election of 1960 o Closest election in 75 years o 111 000 votes separated the winner from the loser o JFK won by out anti communisting Nixon st 1 thing JFK does is get involved in the Bay of Pigs o Bay of Pigs Cuban refugees are trained by CIA to invade Cuba o Made JFK look foolish 1930 1961 Russians build wall in East Berlin o JFK goes to Berlin and makes a speech and mispronounces words Looks foolish JFK s good actions o Passes Housing Act in 1961 o Passes Minimum Wage Act Went for 75 hr to 1 25 hr o Passes Creates Peace Court o Creates The Green Parades 1962 US starting to pull away from Anti Communism o Why are we worried about the communists 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis o US does over flight over Cuba saw that they had missiles given to them by Russians o US began to mobilize o Wanted to get rid of missiles o JFK set up a blockade against Cuba as Russians are heading towards Cuba with missiles o Russians ships met ours and turned around and went back to Russia o It s as close to a nuclear war as US gets 1963 o November 22 JFK came to Dallas TX for a parade and was shot to death o People start to realize how JFK and Lincoln s death are similar o 4 theories how JFK got shot Lee Harvey Oswald shot him with a rifle bought for 12 Killed by a group of the CIA b c JFK was trying to end anti communism Killed by a shooter who was sent by JFK Operation Mongoose to kill Castro and was sent back Johnson killed him so that he could become President least likely o It is still unknown how he was shot