HIST 106 1nd Edition Lecture 17Outline of Last LectureI. Ending of WWIIOutline of Current Lecture I. Overview of the 1950’sCurrent LectureAnnouncement: Our next speaker is from a CIA agent- James Olsen will be here Thursday April 10th.- 1946o Winston Churchill spoke at the graduation for a small college in Missouri and he said ‘an iron that has descended over Eastern Europe.’ He says behind the curtain are the bad guys, we are the good guys He says we will win because we have God on our side and the Atomic bomb- 1949o China has fallen to the communismo ‘March of the Blue Ants’o Russia test the atomic bomb US think Russians are spying on them. US starts looking for spies Finds a couple who are tried and found guilty. Execution becomes a national affairo People are “naming names” People are called in and giving list about who is communists - 1950o Koreans sweep down into South Koreao Korean War begins July of 1950o Begins by North Koreans pouring down South all the way to the bottom. o US President Truman sends in marines to Pusan and moves up to Inchon, it’s called the “Inchon Invasion”o Goes across the 38 parallel and cuts the Koreans off o US attacks at Chosin Reservoir  Marines fighting the Chinese o General Douglas McArthurThese 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. Wants to attack the Chinese, speaks at several conferences- Truman does not agree, By taking McArthur down Truman solves the issue of who is in charge of the waro US pushes North Koreans down to 38 Parallel to sign the an armistice o Korean War 58,000 loses in 3 years 1. Solved the communistic issue of who’s in charge 2. It’s a model for the Vietnam War 3. Alarms the American publico Racism was prevalent Rocky and Bullwinkle – rocky and Bullwinkle are fighting the Russians The Lone Ranger and Tonto – “Tonto” means stupid- 1952o President: Dwight David Eisenhower o States he is neither a Republican nor Democrato People make him run for the Republican partyo Vice President: Richard Nixono Nixon is caught stealing $18 thousand from Republican Fundso He gives a speech on TV: “The Checkered Speech” Never mentions the money incident- 1953o Joe Stalin dies in a meetingo Joe McCarthy  Leader of the Anti Communistic Hysteria Goes after the US army  It’s wrong because the army was protecting them First televised hearing- Things the public noticed from the hearing:o McCarthy was drunko He didn’t know what he was doingo He had a very high pitched voiceo By the end of it, people questioned his sexuality “Point of Order” a book that tells how McCarthy went down in the hearing  Republican party dropped him He dies in 1957 - 1954o Turning point for racism Supreme Court case: Brown vs. Board of Education  Brown said “Separate is not equal” He won the case Public did not accept it- 1959o Black Like Me was written about racism - Throughout the 1950’s, Polio was a threat to American publico Thousands of people had ito People prevented catching it by all looking alike They think that Polio won’t be able to find you if you look like everybody else People are trying to be invisibleo US think… 1. Communists are giving the US polio 2. Think black Americans are carrying polio that the communists are giving- People avoided interaction with blacks- Overview of the 1950’so Economics: US declining are producers of goods Bigger farms are buying smaller farms People changing their crops to cash crops (like corn, soy beans)o Baby Boom (1945-1957) 4.3 million babies are born 1 infant born every 7 seconds As population is increasing, death rate is decreasing- b/c of new medicine Life expectancy is going upo Everybody has cars and is mobileo People are able to go on vacationso Creation of highwayso Rise of Motel (Motor Hotels)o White Americans are fleeing Urban cities to move to suburbso Going back to big businesso Eisenhower and Nixon are reelected in 1956- 1960o JFK is elected and has an “I don’t care” attitude about communismo US supports every dictator in the Western World as long as they state they are Anti- Communist-