Global Struggle Against Communism

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Global Struggle Against Communism

• Subversion- Use of spies and secret agents
• to acquire information from
  an enemy.
• I. Communist victory in China
• Democracy V. Communism
• 
  
• Nationalist V. Communist
• 
  
• Chiang Kai Shek V. Mao Zedong
• 
  
• U.S.A. Support V. Soviet Support
• Communist Victory in
  1949
• Peoples Republic of
  China

Adopted 1949 This flag was adopted upon the
victory of the Chinese Communists in 1949. The
traditional colors of China are yellow and red
and of course the traditional color of communism
is also red. The large star represents the
Communist Party Program with the subservient
other four stars representing the 4 classes in
Chinese Society which are to participate in the
ongoing revolution peasantry, workers,
capitalists and the bourgeoisie. That the design
is similar to the old Soviet flag, with its red
banner of Communism is no coincidence.
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II. The Korean War

• 1. North Korea
• a. Peoples Republic of Korea
• -Communist
• 2. South Korea
• a. Democratic
• 3. 38th Parallel
• a. Divides N . S. Korea

The South Koreans have highly philosophical flag
called Taegeukgi . The circle in the centre of
the flag signifies the Taoist symbol of harmony
and continual movement between opposites - yin
and yang. The upper red section represents the
positive cosmic forces of the yang (male, heaven
etc.). Conversely, the blue lower half represents
the negative cosmic forces of the yin (female,
earth etc.). The two forces together characterise
the sphere of infinity. The circle is surrounded
by three lines called trigram, one in each
corner. Trigrams are adopted from the classical
book of Chinese thought - Book of Change. Each of
the trigrams symbolises one of the four universal
elements heaven (upper left) earth (down left),
fire (down right) and water (upper right). The
white background of the flag for its part
expresses Confucian purity and/or Buddhist
concept of emptiness
Created in 1948 to reflect the new communism of
North Korea, this flag uses the traditional red
color and five pointed star of communism. The
white signifies purity and blue represents the
wish for peace and friendship
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II. The Korean War continued

• Korea and the Cold War
• South Korea V. North Korea
• 
  
• Democracy V. Communist
• 
  
• U.S.A. Support V. Soviet Support
• Chinese
  Support

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II. The Korean War continued

• 4. Summer 1950
• a. N. Korea Invaded S. Korea
• -Truman sent U.N. troops
• -International Police Force
• -Truman Doctrine
• -Gen. MacArthur
• -disobeyed commands
• -attempted to advance to China
• -removed from command

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III. The Red Scare

• Fear of Communism
• 1. Creation of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
• 2. Investigations of government workers
• a. Hundreds lost government jobs
• -suspected of sabotage
• b. McCarthyism
• -Senator Joseph McCarthy
• -accused over 200 government
• officials of Communist activity