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McCarthyism
From hippocampus.org, produced by University of California
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This video is accompanied by text. "In 1950, as the Red Scare intensified, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy told the Ohio County Republican Women's Club of Wheeling, West Virginia, that the State Department was infested with Communists. He claimed t...o have a list of 205 names that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party. News of the speech spread quickly across the nation and Republican McCarthy became the talk of Congress..." ( Video is well done and professionally produced.)
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January 4, 2010 at 08:51 PM
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Ages: 14 - 18
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This video is accompanied by text. "The Korean War and advances in nuclear weaponry by Soviet scientists promoted the rapid spread of anti-Communist sentiment throughout America. Public fears that Communist spies were infiltrating the U.S. government... and undermining foreign policy led to the introduction of strict security measures. However, many Americans believed that their traditional freedoms—primarily free speech and the right of political dissent—would erode in the climate of the Cold War..." ( Video is well done and professionally produced.)
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January 4, 2010 at 08:49 PM
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Ages: 14 - 18
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This video is accompanied by text. "As fighting during World War II raged on, Allied leaders Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill grew suspicious of Joseph Stalin's postwar plans for the Soviet Union. They came to realize that the Russian dictato...r could not be trusted and cautiously evaluated how wartime strategies might affect postwar outcomes. Roosevelt, and later President Harry Truman, worried that the spread of communism would threaten the safety of the United States and all democratic countries. By the time the U.S. entered the Korean War in 1950, America was entangled in a second Red Scare so intense that it overshadowed the Red Scare of 1919-1920..."
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January 4, 2010 at 08:46 PM
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Ages: 14 - 18
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1947 - 1953 Following Stalins domination of Eastern Europe and the loss of China, American democracy falls victim to anti-communist hysteria, but survives it. Eisenhower is elected President. In the Soviet Union, Stalin reinforces the climate of terr...or on which his rule is based. When he dies, in 1953, the Soviet people mourn the end of an era.
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August 20, 2009 at 06:53 PM
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Ages: 14 - 18
791 Views:
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1947 - 1953 Following Stalins domination of Eastern Europe and the loss of China, American democracy falls victim to anti-communist hysteria, but survives it. Eisenhower is elected President. In the Soviet Union, Stalin reinforces the climate of terr...or on which his rule is based. When he dies, in 1953, the Soviet people mourn the end of an era.
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August 20, 2009 at 06:52 PM
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Not Right For WatchKnowLearn
Ages: 14 - 18
758 Views:
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1947 - 1953 Following Stalins domination of Eastern Europe and the loss of China, American democracy falls victim to anti-communist hysteria, but survives it. Eisenhower is elected President. In the Soviet Union, Stalin reinforces the climate of terr...or on which his rule is based. When he dies, in 1953, the Soviet people mourn the end of an era.
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August 20, 2009 at 06:54 PM
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Not Right For WatchKnowLearn
Ages: 14 - 18
753 Views:
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1947 - 1953 Following Stalins domination of Eastern Europe and the loss of China, American democracy falls victim to anti-communist hysteria, but survives it. Eisenhower is elected President. In the Soviet Union, Stalin reinforces the climate of terr...or on which his rule is based. When he dies, in 1953, the Soviet people mourn the end of an era.
[more]
August 20, 2009 at 06:55 PM
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Not Right For WatchKnowLearn
Ages: 14 - 18
731 Views:
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1947 - 1953 Following Stalins domination of Eastern Europe and the loss of China, American democracy falls victim to anti-communist hysteria, but survives it. Eisenhower is elected President. In the Soviet Union, Stalin reinforces the climate of terr...or on which his rule is based. When he dies, in 1953, the Soviet people mourn the end of an era.
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August 20, 2009 at 06:56 PM
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