The McCarthy Era

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The McCarthy Era
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Another Red Scare

• Fear of the Reds Anticommunist views.
• Lifting wartime prices/limits inflation
  rising prices strikes.
• Taft/Hartley Bill limiting Union strength
  Congress passed Truman vetoed Congress
  overrode.
• Reelection Truman didnt stand a chance 1948.
• Wallace (Progressives Party) had the vote of the
  Dixiecrats.
• Republican Thomas Dewey the nation knew hed
  win.
• Newspaper headlines and America was wrong
  Truman won big!
• Fair Deal, medical insurance, social security,
  public housing, minimum wage.
• Repealed Taft-Hartley Bill.

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Uncle Sam Sifting Out the Commies
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The McCarthy Era

• House Un-American Activities (HUAC) Committee
  with Nixon Voice of reason.
• Fear of the spread of Communism. 1920s/1930s
  association with Stalin.
• Alger Hiss Case! Chambers!!!! Nixon HUAC.
• Federal Employee Loyalty Program.
• Three million people investigated 3,000 resign,
  212 fired.
• McCarthy Era Goal to rid the U.S. and Trumans
  administration of Communism.
• False Claims, intimidation, accusations, little
  evidence.
• Met his match U.S. Army.
• U.S. citizens spied on neighbors, friends,
  teachers, and clergy. Blacklisting.

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McCarthy and Nixon
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Eisenhower in 1952

• Patriot Supreme Allied Commander Never Voted.
• Ran for Pres in 1952 Nixon was VP running mate.
• We like Ike Hydro-electric power/Atomic
  Energy Act.
• In his second term (1956) Ike beat Adlai
  Stevenson.
• Foreign policy Korea, Cuba, Cold War, Sputnik
  I, and Explorer I.
• Federal Interstate Act - 32 billion approved,
  but 80 billion spent.
• Social Security up 7 million new people/year.
• Unemployment pay up to cover 4 million new
  people/year.
• Minimum wage up from .70 to 1.00

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Nixon and the Bomb
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The Television President

• 1960 Election
• Kennedy Nixon
• Catholic Protestant
• Harvard Elite Middle Class
• Spender Fiscal Conservative
• Style and Wit Experience
• Similar foreign policy both moderate Civil
  Rights.
• T.V. and Radio debate
• Nixon - weary from campaigning.
• Kennedy fit and tan from rest in Florida
• Radio listeners Nixon won. T.V. Kennedy won.
• Election Kennedy 49.7 popular vote 303
  electoral
• Nixon 49.5 popular vote 219 electoral

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JFK during WWII
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The Debates