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The Red Scare was not only one event but a series of events that propelled it to be the "Red Scare". The whole Red Scare was people being paranoid about Communism living among them. What happens when you get a bunch of paranoid people is a lot of unevidenced blame and that's exactly what happened. People started blaming each other to the point where they started bringing each other to court.

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1938- HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)

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1938- HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)

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The HUAC or the House Un-American Activities Committee was founded in 1938 and the purpose of the HUAC was to protect the internal security of the US. The HUAC was disbanded because it could become a "Springboard for Communist activity.". One of the main ways the HUAC thought Communism was getting through was through Hollywood and the labor unions.

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The Truman Doctrine was written by President Truman on March 12, 1947, in response to Greece and Turkey being attacked and harassed about joining Communism. First of all, he wrote the doctrine to state his belief on helping Countries after the war and helping them rebuild their government how they want it. Second of all he states that if Greece and Turkey were to fall to Communism that surrounding countries would feel pressured to join Communism themselves.

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The Hollywood 10 were 10 Hollywood people that were investigated and refused to go to court for whatever reason they had. Every one of those people were blacklisted meaning they were not accepted or not allowed to do specific things. Because they refused to go to court they were charged and given fines and some jail time.

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The Marshall Plan was a speech by George Marshall basically saying that the US has not done enough to help Europe after the War. George Marshall thinks the best course of action is helping European people and Governments to help them get back on their feet after the war. Some of the pros of the Marshall Plan were less places for Communism to go, making allies with countries you help. Some cons of the Plan are there is less food for the US citizens, less fuel, less raw materials, and it might make some countries rely on us as a primary resource.

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After the war Germany was split into four territories or zones. The territories were split between Britain, France, US, and the USSR. When they planned decided the territories at the Potsdam Conference, they originally had Berlin (the capital of Germany) in the USSR territory. The US, Britain, and France did not like that so they decided they would split Berlin into for zones or territories too. The only problem with Berlin was it was right in the middle of the USSR territory and the west had nothing in place so they could get their people in and out with little to no problem, no paperwork nothing. Stalin started his overtake of Germany by trying to block off the west from entering Berlin.

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The Berlin airlifts started when the USSR tried to block off the west from their side of Berlin in an attempt to take it over. The West side of Berlin had very limited supplies and food because of the blockage by the USSR nothing or no one was allowed to go in or out of the west side of Berlin. The US and Britian decided the best course of action was to send cargo planes, bombers, anything with a high load capacity to drop food and supplies into West Berlin. The blockage of West Berlin lasted almost a year when the USSR decided that they could not stop the west from dropping supplies. The blockage of West Berlin ended May 12, 1949 and over 2.3 million tons of supplies were delivered by air.

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Josef McCarthy was a Republican US senator for the state of Wisconsin. He shot to fame for being a "anti-Communist". The reason he shot to fame was because of one speech attacking the State Department and Dean Acheson, he accused them of harboring Communist. After that speech people spiraled out of control and started blaming a bunch of people of being a Communist or a Communist supporter. This news that people were getting on board with McCarthy that made McCarthy have control over what people said giving him great power.

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The war left Korea divided because Korea was a colony of Japan's before the war and when they lost, they lost some colonize as well. Korea was split due to difference in wants governmentally. The North was controlled by Communist Mao Zedong and the South was controlled by Nationalist Chaing Kai-Shek. The Korean war was the first military action of under the new foreign policy of containment. The war started because the north sent troops to the south and the Americans joined under the new policy of containment. After three years of fighting, it finally reached a stalemate where they decided that they would form a border at the 38th parallel.

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When it was all said and done the north and south bordered along the 38th parallel. A demilitarized zone formed along the border. In the end 54,000 Americans lost their lives. 67 billion dollars were spent on the war. The war was viewed as a failure on the American part and the Americans completely rejected the Democratic vote in 1952 election and they elected the first republican president in 20 years a WWII hero Dwight D Eisenhower. On the homeland of America, the Americans fear of Communism grew after the Korean war failure.

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The Eisenhower Doctrine was written by President Eisenhower on January 5, 1957. The Eisenhower Doctrine basically said that if another country was being targeted or threated with armed forces, they could request US economic and or military aid. The Eisenhower administration decided to issue this Doctrine because of rising USSR influence in Egypt and Seria. The Eisenhower Doctrine was tested in Lebanon in 1958, when the Lebanon president called for US help because of threats of armed aggression. Eisenhower responded by sending US troops into Lebanon he also sent them to send a message to the USSR that the US was not backing down.

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In 1959 the Cuban Government was overthrown by a man named Fidel Castro. Castro was a strong Communist supporter. Had an extremely powerful ally in the USSR because of him being a supporter of Communism. Th USSR promised to protect Cuba with weapons if attacked. The US was concerned of attack from the Cubans because of how close Cuba is to the US. The CIA was tasked with overthrowing Castro by sending Cuban exiles in and "invade" the island. They planned on the Cuban people to join the rebellion and overthrow Castro.

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The election of 1960 brought two new candidates John D Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Kennedy was a Democrat and Nixon was the Republican. What was different about this election was that it was the first televised debate. This election was the closest election since 1884. JFK promised to focus on America again. The first family made quiet the buzz around America with how young and good looking the family was. The family was considered a more modern presidential family.

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The Bay of Pigs will forever go down as one of the worst military actions in US history. The Bay of Pigs was chosen because of how it was more secluded. The invasion started with a para trooper drop on the island and to destroy as many Cuban aircraft as possible. The para troopers landed in the wrong spot and the Cubans had more aircraft than expected. The second phase was ammo was to be boated in and that took to long for the ammo to get off the boats, the Cubans sunk those ships. But when things started looking better for the offense the troopers ran out of ammo and were captured. Majority of the troopers were captured and put in prison. Overall, the US government looked weak and incompetent and the CIA looked like a joke. For the Cubans they strengthened their alliance with the Soviets.

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In August 1961 the USSR put up a barbed wire fence that was shortly followed by a much taller concrete wall. The USSR put up wall to divide the west and east Berlin even more and not allowing anyone to cross it. The wall not only further divided the land, but it also divided the people. Before the wall was put in a number of people had moved for better opportunities due to Communism having much more limited job opportunities than in the west. After the wall was put up there was limited contact with the other side that brought some rumors that the USSR was going to attack the western side. If east Berliners were to try to leave the east side, they were to be considered dissenters and would be killed attempting to cross.

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The Cuban missile crisis started in 1962 when the USSR sent nuclear weapons to Cuba. This went against the document that said what five countries could have nuclear weapons and Cuba was not one of them. JFK responded by saying that the US would not tolerate nuclear weapons in Cuba. What made the Cubans having nuclear weapons so scary was that if they were to launch said missiles that they would reach American cities in a matter of minutes.