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Rosenberg spy case
Atomic bomb announcement (1949)
Atom bomb blueprint turned over to Russia
In cahoots withEmil Julius Klaus Fuchs, a German-born British atomic scientist
Harry Gold, a chemist from Philadelphia
David and Ruth Greenglass
Anatoli Yakovlev
Morton Sobell
Rosenbergs were with the Communist Party
In violation of Title 50, U.S. Code, Section 34
U.S. District judge, Southern District of NY
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The era of McCarthyism begins
• The era of McCarthyism begins at 1950-1954.
• 1950: February 9th, Wheeling, West Virginia, McCarthy delivers a speech and displays a list of 205 Communists sympathizers in the State Department. He wins national headlines.
• 1954: April 22nd, Televised Army-McCarthy trials begin.
• 1954: Senate votes to condemn McCarthy. He is stripped of his power as committee chair after 1954 elections. -
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Fidel Castro comes to power in Cuba
• July 26th, 1953: Castro stages a rebellion and attacks Batista’s largest military outpost, the Moncada Barracks near Santiago. The revolt is unsuccessful and Castro is arrested.
• May, 1955: Castro is given amnesty and is released from prison. He is exiled into Mexico.
• 1955: Castro founds the July 26th of July Movement in Mexico.
• Jan 1, 1959: Batista flees as Castro’s rebels entered Havana. The following week a new government arrives as Castro arrives. He assumes the post of commander -
Sputnik Launched
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Jacobo Arbenz
Before his death, Arana had planned to run in the upcoming 1950 presidential elections. His death left Árbenz without any serious contenders in the elections (leading some, including the CIA and U.S. military intelligence, to speculate that Árbenz personally had him eliminated for this reason). Árbenz got more than 3 times as many votes as the runner-up, Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes. -
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U.S. overthrows Iranian Go
Premier Mohammed Mosaddeq
The Shah’s rule ends in 1979
Mosaddeq in 1951 (Attacked British oil companies)
Feared Mosaddeq would lead country towards Communism
CIA and British Intelligence’s plot discovered
Shah left country, came back after it was overthrown
Overthrown on 8/19/1953
Signed over 40% of oil fields to U.S. companies
The Shah allowed America to compete during the Cold War
Shah stayed into power until 1981 once protests broke out in 1979
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John Foster Dulles - Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles was appointed Secretary of State by President Dwight Eisenhower.Dulles served for much of the decade, leaving an indelible mark upon United States foreign policy that included close cooperation between the Department of State and the Central Intelligence Agency and a focus upon international mutual security agreements to contain communism. -
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Khrushchev comes to power in Soviet Union
• Nikita Khrushchev was selected to be one of five men to the new office of secretaries of the communist party. (March 20, 1953)
• Organized a coalition of soviet politicians to force Malenkov to relinquish the post of first secretary.
• Named secretary of the communist party in September of 1953
• Replaces Malenkov with Nikolai Bulganin, his puppet (Feb. 1955)
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Hungarian Revolt
Hungarian Revolution (1956 Oct. 23- Nov. 10)
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Revolt against the People’s Republic of Hungary (Communist, USSR)
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First major incident that threatened control for the USSR since WWII
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Soviets crushed the revolutionaries in eighteen days.
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This revolt played a key role in the USSR’s downfall
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Example of how Stalin wanted buffer zones
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How America couldn’t contain communism.
