HY 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Jacobo Árbenz, Cuban Missile Crisis, Anglo-Persian Oil Company
24 Mar 2017
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Trying to turn it around: mccarthyism. Holds hearings political downfall: accuses army of being secret communists, senate votes to censure mccarthy. Used threat of communist submersion in u. s. Influences the cio protects from charges against them: lavender scare. Fears of communism is linked with homophobia. Gays pose a security risk because they are more easily blackmailed. Connected to red scare because of paranoia of communism. Korean war/containment: divided into north and south. Soviets=north democratic peoples republic: north run by kim ii sung. Communist: south run by syngman rhee nationalist activist, both ignore re-unionization of the country, north invades south. Scared of war with u. s: proximity of japan to korea makes it seem weaker, united nations issues a resolution. Oviets is(cid:374)"t sitti(cid:374)g i(cid:374) o(cid:374) the (cid:373)eeti(cid:374)g. Proxy war between u. s. and soviets satellite in asia: fighting favored north. Sends south running for cover: august u. s. halts north, september douglas mcarthur.
