plus 863-64 in Chapter 28 The Eisenhower Presidency 1. Eisenhower - What type of chief executive was he? He gave peace and stability. He gave a sense of unity‚ inspired confidence and even Democratic liberalism and republican like him .With McCarthyism and desegregation of schools‚ he had a hand off approach. 2. “Dynamic Conservatism” - How did it differ from conventional conservatism? - Reduce taxes‚ contain inflation‚ and govern efficiently without surrendering the fundamentals of the New
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Cited: Bayley‚ Edwin R. Joe McCarthy and the Press. Madison‚ WI: University of Wisconsin‚ 1981 Fried‚ Albert. McCarthyism: The Great American Red Scare : A Documentary History. New York: Oxford UP‚ 1997
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Cold War United Nations Chiang Kai-Shek Mao Zedong “China Lobby” Containment Doctrine George Kennan Marshall Plan National Security Act of 1947 Central Intelligence Agency NATO Berlin Airlift Warsaw Pact NSC-68 Servicemen’s Readjustment Act – 1944 GI Bill Coal Strike – 1946 Fair Deal Labor Management Relations Act – 1947 Progressive Party Thomas Dewey Korean War Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur HUAC The Hollywood 10 Alger Hiss Whittaker Chambers Richard Nixon J. Edgar Hoover
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Dream. Dir. Janet Forman. Perf. Steve Allen‚ David Amram‚ Amiri Baraka. 1987). Major events that occurred during the era include the Korean War‚ the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower‚ and an anti communist sentiment resulting in the Red Scare and McCarthyism. Although the 1950s is categorized as a time of compliance and conformity in United States history‚ it was also a period that triggered social unrest resulting in the social upheaval of the 1960s (Francev‚ Kimberly‚ Ph.D. "Lectures 1-9." Lecture
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heit Fahrenheit 451 Scavenger Hunt What is Science Fiction? Science fiction is a form that deals principally with the impact of actual or imagined science upon society or individuals. If science concerns itself with discovery‚ then science fiction concerns itself with the consequences of discovery. It is a testament to the visionary nature of the form that science fiction writers predicted the advent of atomic weapons and sentient machines. It endures value though is in its capacity to ask probing
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Question: Discuss how the global media industry started taking shape after the Second World War. What were the major features of media industry in US and Europe during 1950s to 1970s? How did the media industry in US get restructured during 1980s to 1990s? Media can be defined in general as‚ "media" refers to various means of communication. For example‚ television‚ radio‚ and the newspaper are different types of media. Media includes every broadcasting and narrowcasting medium such as newspapers
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150-161 from the Todd book. All of these sections were assigned and questions were asked in class covering most of the readings. 1. What was the difference between Cominform and COMECOM? Cominform: Communist Information Bureau (September 1947) created as an instrument to increase Stalin’s control over the Communist parties of other countries. COMECOM: Council for Mutual Economic Assistance – was a centralized agency that linked Eastern bloc countries to Moscow (bilateral trade agreements
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Cold War tensions led to the Anti-communist policy being being developed in the USA which not only impacted its own country but also renewed Cold War tensions. This is evident when examining McCarthyism‚ the Witch-Hunts and Trials‚ and the Propaganda campaign. The US historical period known as “McCarthyism” began long before Joseph McCarthy’s own involvement. There were many factors that contributed to its beginning including; the increased membership in the “Communist Party of the United States”
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The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program‚ ERP) was the large-scale economic program‚ 1947–1951[1]‚ of the United States for rebuilding and creating a stronger economic foundation for the countries of Europe A sit-in or sit-down a form of protest involving occupying seats or sitting down on the floor of an establishment The United States was the first country in the world to develop nuclear weapons‚ and is the only country to have used them in warfare‚ with the separate bombings
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was the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)‚ which was founded in 1942 to campaign for equal rights for African Americans. After 1949‚ the civil rights movement really started to blossom‚ starting with the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case in 1954. It marked the end of segregation‚ overturning Plessy v. Ferguson. After 1949‚ the Civil Rights movement had started
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