HIST 106 1nd Edition Lecture 17 Outline of Last Lecture I Ending of WWII Outline of Current Lecture I Overview of the 1950 s Current Lecture Announcement Our next speaker is from a CIA agent James Olsen will be here Thursday April 10 th 1946 o 1949 o o o o 1950 o o o o o o o 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 China has fallen to the communism March of the Blue Ants 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 affair People are naming names People are called in and giving list about who is communists Koreans sweep down into South Korea Korean War begins July of 1950 Begins by North Koreans pouring down South all the way to the bottom US President Truman sends in marines to Pusan and moves up to Inchon it s called the Inchon Invasion Goes across the 38 parallel and cuts the Koreans off US attacks at Chosin Reservoir Marines fighting the Chinese General Douglas McArthur 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 o o 1952 o o o o o o 1953 o o 1954 o 1959 o 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 war US pushes North Koreans down to 38 Parallel to sign the an armistice 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 public Racism was prevalent Rocky and Bullwinkle rocky and Bullwinkle are fighting the Russians The Lone Ranger and Tonto Tonto means stupid President Dwight David Eisenhower States he is neither a Republican nor Democrat People make him run for the Republican party Vice President Richard Nixon Nixon is caught stealing 18 thousand from Republican Funds He gives a speech on TV The Checkered Speech Never mentions the money incident Joe Stalin dies in a meeting 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 drunk o He didn t know what he was doing o He had a very high pitched voice o 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 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 Black Like Me was written about racism Throughout the 1950 s Polio was a threat to American public o Thousands of people had it o 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 invisible o 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 s o 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 up o Everybody has cars and is mobile o People are able to go on vacations o Creation of highways o Rise of Motel Motor Hotels o White Americans are fleeing Urban cities to move to suburbs o Going back to big business o Eisenhower and Nixon are reelected in 1956 1960 o JFK is elected and has an I don t care attitude about communism o US supports every dictator in the Western World as long as they state they are AntiCommunist MISTAKE