McCarthyism and 20th century

conflicts

McCarthyism

• Senator Joseph McCarthy

• childhood

• senate years

• Anti-communist atmosphere

• Sensational discovery

Korean War

• 1950 – 1953

• preconditions of war

• UN Resolution 1950

• Results

Vietnam War

• 1955 – 1975

• Post WWII events

• Ho Chi Minh’s revolution

• Effects of the Korean War

• The French leave – 1954

• US involvement

• Casualties

• War results

Berlin Crisis

• October 1961

• Antecedents

• Berlin blockade 1948 – 1949

• 1951 – Control over E. Berlin transferred

• 1952 – Migration flows – Berlin

• by 1961, 20% of E. Germans

• Berlin ultimatum 1958

• U2 spy plane destruction

Cuban Missile Crisis

• October 1962

• Growing gap in missile warheads

• Soviet idea

• US Blockade

• Secret talks

• Results

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