26:3 Cold War at Home

Spread of Communism

• China• North Korea• Eastern Europe• USA????

Second Red Scare

• Spread of Communism

Loyalty Review Board

• Communists in U.S. government• “subversive” organizations• 212 of 3.2 million• unconstitutional

House Un-American Activities CommitteeHUAC

• Communists-government and civilian• Communists propaganda in movies• Hollywood Ten• 500 Blacklisted

Alger Hiss

• Soviet Spy?• Prosecutor-Richard Nixon

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

• American communist Party• Soviet Spies?• USSR goes Nuclear• executed

McCarthyism

• Joseph McCarthy• Witch Hunt for communists in government

26:4 Two nations Live on the Edge

US v. USSR Arms Race

• USSR nuclear 1949• US H-Bomb 1952• USSR H-Bomb 1953

Brinksmanship

• Response to USSR nuclear capabilities• Eisenhower’s foreign policy• Dependency on nukes

Nuclear Power

• Aircraft carriers• Submarines• Electricity• Nuclear Medicine: PET scans

According to Traywick

• 1 two liter bottle of uranium = 79 lbs• 79 lbs enriched uranium = 35,000,000,000 pounds of

coal• 714 lbs of coal for 1/100 watt light bulb for a year

Fallout Shelters

• 2 week supply• Concrete/cinder block

Savannah Nuclear Fallout Shelter, 1962

During the Cold War era, a national survey identified City Hall as a potential fallout shelter. In 1962, following the results of the survey, City Hall was designated the first public shelter in the state of Georgia. Mayor Malcolm Maclean and Colonel Jack Harris, a U. S. District Engineer, posted signs in front of the building marking it as site to serve the public in the case of a nuclear disaster.

U.S. Nuclear Power Plants

Central Intelligence AgencyCIA

• Spies• Secret operations

Warsaw Pact

• Military alliance: USSR and 7 Eastern European countries

• Response to the formation of NATO• Effort to establish a sphere of influence

Geneva: Open Skies

• Openly inspect each other’s missile site?

Keep communism from the Middle East

• Suez Canal• Shah of Iran

Eisenhower Doctrine

• U.S. would defend middle east against communism

• Counter USSR influence in the middle east

Death of Stalin

Nikita Khrushchev

• Philosophy: Communism will eventually take over the world, but the two worlds can co-exist until that happens.

Space Race: Sputnik

• Russian satellite-threat to national security

U-2 Incident

• Gary Powers-shot down over Soviet Territory