The Korean War & McCarthyism

The Cold War and the American Dream

(1945-1960)

Chapter 28, Section 2

Essential Questions

• Should governments have the right to invade a citizen’s privacy if it’s in the public’s best interest?

• Should rules ever be “bent?”

John Stewart Service• An American Born in

China: Lived There until he went to College in the U.S.

• Hired by the U.S. State Department as a “China Expert”

• Warned the U.S. that Communism was Growing in China

• State Department Fired Him – Blamed Him for China’s Communist Revolution

Spread of Communism• Civil War Breaks out

in China in 1949

• Nationalists vs. Communists

• Communists Win

• America’s Fear of Communism Grew:– Viewed China’s

Revolution as a Communist Plot to Control the World

U.S. Fears

Mao Zedong

• Leader of the New Communist Government in China

• Soviet Union Supported Mao Zedong

Chiang Kai-shek• Leader of the

Nationalist Government in China

• Lost Civil War to the Chinese Communists

• Nationalists Fled to Taiwan (Formosa)

• U.S. Supported Chiang Kai-Shek

Korea • Korea was a Japanese

Colony Before WWII

• After WWII Ended in 1945, Soviet Troops Occupied Korea North of the 38th Parallel

• American Forces Moved in & Took Control South of 38th Parallel

• Korea Became the Center of a Cold War Conflict!

Korean War Starts• In June 1950, the

North Korean Army (Communist) Crossed the 38th Parallel into South Korea

• Don’t Forget the U.S. Policy of CONTAINMMENT!

• U.S. Appealed to the U.N. to STOP the Communist Attack on South Korea

Korean War• 16 Nations Joined

the United Nations to Fight North Korea

• U.N. Army was Mostly Made Up of U.S. Troops

• General Douglas MacArthur was Placed in Charge (“I Shall Return”)

• North Korea Almost Conquered All of South Korea (Pusan)

• General MacArthur Used a Daring Plan by Landing U.N. Troops Behind Enemy Lines at Inchon

• General MacArthur’s Plan Worked

• U.N. Troops Pushed North Korea Back to the 38th Parallel

N. Korea Dominates

Counter Attack• After Pushing North

Korean Forces Back Across the 38th Parallel, MacArthur Asked Permission to Invade North Korea

• President Truman Agreed: Wanted to Unite North and South Korea (Make it a Democracy)

• MacArthur Invaded North Korea

Invasion of North Korea• UN Forces Pushed

the North Koreans Back to the Yalu River (Border with China)

• China Warned the U.N. & the U.S. to STOP!

• What was China Afraid of?

China Enters Korean War

• In November of 1950 the Chinese Army (Communist) Attacked the U.N. Forces

• China Helped the North Koreans Drive the U.N. Back Across the 38th Parallel

• By 1951, Stalemate at the 38th Parallel

World War III?• General MacArthur

Wanted to Bomb China and Blockade their Coastline

• Truman Refused!

• Truman Feared Soviet Union Would Back Up China

• World War III?

You’re Fired!• MacArthur Did Not

Agree with Truman

• General MacArthur Criticized President Truman in the Press (Called Him a Wimp)

• President Truman Could Not Have His Commanders Disobeying Orders

• You Are FIRED!

Dwight D. Eisenhower• As the Korean War

was in a Stalemate, Americans Wanted the War to End!

• Dwight D. Eisenhower Won the 1952 Presidential Election (Republican)

• WWII War Hero

• “Ike” Promised to End the Korean War

End of the Korean War• At the Peace Table

President Eisenhower Asked for Peace

• Threatened to Use Nuclear Weapons if North Korea and China Disagreed

• Korean War Ended in a Stalemate!

• 38th Parallel Would Divided North Korea (Communist) and South Korea (Democratic)

• Containment Worked!

Korean War Memorial, D.C.

Joseph McCarthy• Republican Senator

from Wisconsin

• “The List”

• Accused U.S. Government Officials of Being Communists

• Caused a “Witch Hunt” in America for Suspected Communists

“The List” “I have here a list of 205 names

that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department.”

McCarthyism• Term Used to Describe

Reckless Accusations Against Innocent Americans (1950’s)

• Accused Americans of Being Communists

• Thousands of Innocent People Lost Their Careers/Jobs

• What is Wrong with McCarthyism?

Eisenhower’s Brinksmanship

• Eisenhower Disagreed with Containment

• Secretary of State John Foster Dulles Believed in Brinksmanship

• Believed U.S. Should Go to the Brink of War to Stop Communism

• Believed the U.S. Should Overthrow Communist Governments

Famous “Red Scare” Trials

• Alger Hiss (State Department Official) Was Arrested and Convicted for Passing Military Secrets to the Soviet Union

• Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Were Members of the Communist Party:– Sentenced to Death

for Stealing Atomic Secrets & Giving them to the Soviets

Arms Race• U.S. Dropped 1st Atomic

Bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki to End WWII (1945)

• By 1949, the U.S.S.R. Produced their 1st Atomic Bombs

• Hydrogen Bombs Were Produced Next (More Powerful)

• A Deadly Arms Race Developed with Both Sides Creating More and More Nuclear Arms

Central Intelligence Agency• During the 1950’s, the

CIA Ran Secret Missions to Prevent the Spread of Communism:

– In Iran, the U.S. Overthrew a Leader to Prevent Communism

– In Guatemala, the U.S. Trained a Guatemala Rebel Army to Kill the Communist Dictator

Cold War Conflict: Egypt

• Anyone Remember the Battle of El Alamein?

• England & France Owned Suez Canal

• In 1955, Egypt and the Soviet Union Became BFF: Angered U.S. & England

• U.S. and England Stopped Giving $$$ to Egypt

Suez Canal Crisis• When Egypt Did Not

Receive $$$, they Seized the Suez Canal

• England, France & Israel Attacked Egypt

• The Soviet Union Threatened to Back Egypt

• The U.S., U.N. and the Soviet Union Convinced England, France & Israel to Stop Fighting (6 Days)

• Almost WWIII Again

The Israeli “6 Day War”• Israel Kicked

Egypt’s Butt in the War

• Took a lot of Land from Egypt and Other Parts of “Palestine”

• Will Learn More About the “6 Day War” in Global Studies

Sputnik• Soviet Union Launched

the World’s Very 1st Satellite into Space = Sputnik

• Showed that the Soviet Union was Ahead in Science & Math

• Demonstrated that the U.S.S.R. had a Missile that Could Reach the U.S.

• Was the Start of the Space Race

Hmmm….

• Why do YOU think Sputnik scared the living daylights out of the United States?

Space Race• Competition Between the

U.S. and U.S.S.R. During the Cold War for Space Exploration

• 1957, U.S.S.R. Launched Sputnik

• 1958, U.S.S.R. Sends 1st Lunar Probe to Reach the Moon

• 1961, U.S.S.R.’s Yuri Gagarin was the 1st Man in Space

Space Race• Caused a Panic in the U.S.

– Soviet Union/ Communism Might Be Better

• People Feared the Soviet Union Would Dominate Space Exploration

• Viewed as a Contest Between Communism and Capitalism

• Also Feared U.S.S.R. Could Reach U.S. with Nuclear Missiles!

NASA• NASA was Founded in

1958 After Congress Passed the National Aeronautics & Space Act

• U.S. Set Aside Billions for NASA

• President Kennedy Promised at his 1961 Inaugural Address that U.S. Would be the 1st Country to Land a Man on the Moon

Landing on the Moon• John Glenn was the 1st

U.S. Man to Orbit the Earth (1962) (1 Year After the Soviets)

• Neil Armstrong was the 1st Man on the Moon – U.S. Won the Space Race

• July 20th, 1969

• “That’s One Small Step For Man, One Giant Leap for Mankind”

The Paris Peace Talks (1960)

• Both Eisenhower & Khrushchev Feared Growing Tensions (Possible WWIII)

• Both Agreed to Meet in Paris in 1960 to Ease Tensions and Maybe End the Cold War

• What Happened?

Essential Questions

• Should governments have the right to invade a citizen’s privacy if it’s in the public’s best interest?

• Should rules ever be “bent?”