- June 25, 1950 - North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea
- Each section believed The Koreas should be one Union under lead of each of their leaders
- Truman assumes this is a "Soviet-backed" attack
- Security Council (elite body within UN) decides to assist South Korea
The War
- American soldiers take heavy casualties, pushed down Korean peninsula
- Lead advance into North Korea (capturing Pyongyang)
- China goes into war on side of North Korea (pushed American troops back across 38th parallel)
- MacArthur called for land attack on China (alludes to Nuclear attacks on Korea)
- MacArthur is fired in April, 1951
- Armistice talks begin in 1951 (still cannot agree and fighting/dying continues for 2 years)
Fear of Communism in America
- Fear taking over America (fallout shelters made and duck and cover drills)
- House of Un-American Activities Committee leads charge against "communist threats from within"
- HUAC starts investigating Hollywood (communist suspicion by Government)
- Alger Hiss Case - lying to the court about sending papers to a Communist spy
- Robert Nixon urged for Hiss to be indicted for espionage
- "red-baiting become common" - using attack and spreading fear of other political parties
- 1954 the Communist Control Act was passed (made membership to the Communist Party Illegal?)
Senator Joseph McCarthy
- Becomes head of "witch-hunt"
- Claimed the state is crawling with communists
- Claimed to have also had a list of 205 communists in the department
- His main targets were democrats associated with the New Deal (Truman and Dean Acheson are "dangerous liberals")
- President Eisenhower feared McCarthy would split the Republican Party
- Starts to look like a bully and the public starts to doubt him and they get a chance to see abuse of witnesses
- 1954 Senate finally condemns McCarthy in a 67-22 vote
- Dies soon after in 1957 probably from alcohol and exhaustion
Ike's Political Philosophy
- "Dynamic Conservation"
- Believer in delegation
- Criticized for this because he often seemed uninformed and he was always at the gold course
- Era of conformity and consensus
- Took different anti-communist actions
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