Covert Operations around the World

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Covert Operations around the World

• Popcorn read the CIA covert operations.
• Extra Credit option!!!!
• Pick a covert operation and create a PPT to
  present to class.
• Explain what happened
• why did the covert operation take place
• impact of operation
• U.S. relation with that country today.
• Up to Two bathroom passes (40 points).
• Due Friday or next Monday, depending on when you
  have this class.

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XC CIA PPT

• Mainly pictures and bullets.
• Should use note cards to give additional
  information to class.
• Discuss CIA involvement
• Where?
• Why?
• When?
• Impact?
• Todays impact?
• Add your personal thoughts to your PPT.

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McCarthy and the Cold War at home

• SWBAT
• -experience the anti-Communist hysteria and
  suspicion of the McCarthy era during the 1950s by
  participating in an activity which creates
  suspicion of one another.
• -describe how Americans turned on each other
  accusing people of being Communists or communist
  sympathizers by reading and analyzing pictures,
  political cartoons and readings of the time
  period.

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Directions for simulation

• Fear of communists amongst us!!!
• Pick one piece of paper ----DO NOT SHOW ANYONE
  YOUR PIECE OF PAPER!!! If you show, we will stop
  and there will be NO X.C.
• Look at without showing anyone else.
• If you have a pink dot on your paper, DO NOT TELL
  anyone you are trying to be the only pink dot in
  a group.
• If you DO NOT have a pink dot on your paper then
  you will be trying to create a group without pink
  dots!!!
• Pink dots represent.?
• Extra Credit for the only pink dot in a group,
  and for groups with NO pink dots!!
• Remember, it is a simulation and in real life you
  would not have a piece of paper to show!!!

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Wednesday 3/30 Thursday 3/31

• R.A.P.
• How did you feel when you discovered you had a
  blank piece of paper? A dot?
• For those who had dots, how did you convince
  others you were NOT a dot?
• For those who were accused of being a dot, how
  did you feel? What made you fearful or
  suspicious?
• What emotions fueled this activity? Can you
  think of any time in history when something like
  this occurred?

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Title your Notes Cold War at HomeCh.
19.2--McCarthyism

• Please open your textbook to page 640.
• Read pages 640 - 641.
• What do you believe caused anticommunist
  sentiment?
• Read the following pages 641-647
• And take notes on certain activities, people,
  terms, and events.

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The Hunt for Communists

• As you read please take notes on the following
• House Un-American Activities Committee or HUAC.
• American Communist Party

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Cold War at Home

• House Un-American Activities Committee- formed in
  1938 as an anti-Communist organization. (McCarthy
  was a member)
• Demagoguery stirring people up by appealing to
  their emotions and to character assassination
• Hollywood Ten
• HUAC and the Hollywood Ten
• (532)

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Anti-communism as a political weapon

• 1946Republican National Committee claimed the
  Democrats were soft on communism.
• American Communist Party
• FDRs New Deal was pink
• creeping socialism

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Read and take notes on

• Case of Alger Hiss
• Who? What?
• Role of Whittaker Chambers
• Proof in a Pumpkin Patch

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SPIES AT HOME

• 1949, Alger Hiss, state department
  employeeconvicted of espionage.
• Julius and Ethel Rosenberg convicted of treason
  and executed in 1953.
• Alger Hiss and the Rosenberg's (228)
• McCarran Act in 1950 Congress passes this law
  making it illegal for Americans to engage in
  activities that would create a Communist
  government.
• Truman vetoed the bill, in a free country, we
  punish men for crimes they commit, but never for
  the opinions they hold.
• Congress easily overrode the veto.

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• Truman joins the Red Hunt
• McCarran Act
• Seeking U.S. Secrets
• Hollywood Ten

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Anti-Communist Sentiment in American Society

• McCarran Act
• 1950 Congress passed this act making it illegal
  for Americans to engage in activities that would
  create a Communist government.
• Communist organizations had to register with the
  federal government.
• Red Menace
• Political Discourse
• Trumans health care shot down
• Lawmaking
• Education
• Film Industry Hollywood Ten
• Page 648

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As a class we will read and take notes on
McCarthy Era
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McCarthyism

• Senator Joseph McCarthy
• Birth of McCarthyismreferred to the use of
  intimidation and often unfounded accusations in
  the name of fighting communism.
• Beginning--list of 205 state department employees
  who McCarthy claimed were communists.
• Accusation dwindled to a lot

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End of McCarthyism

• McCarthy attacks U.S. Army
• McCarthyism (533)
• Communist Party membership never gained a
  foothold in the U.S.
• In 1954, the Senate voted to condemn McCarthy.
• Died in 1957

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Student Response

• Please select a proverb that reflects an
  important lesson from the McCarthy era and write
  it on a blank sheet of notebook paper. (Keep it
  in your notebook)
• Below the proverb create a drawing of the proverb
  and then label parts of the drawing with
  appropriate historical comparisons.
• Look before you leap!
• People who live in glass houses shouldnt throw
  stones.
• You cant judge a book by its cover.
• For extra points you can present your proverb to
  the class.
• Keep it in your notebook for note check.

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Please read The Eisenhower Years- Ch. 19.3
pages 652-656 DUE Friday

• Objective Understand President Eisenhowers
  accomplishments as President during the Cold War.
  Describe the similarities and differences of
  Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy. Explain how
  Kennedy was able to win the 1960 election.
• Read pages 652-656 and take notes on the
  following.
• Make a list giving examples of why people liked
  and trusted Eisenhower.
• Make a list describing his accomplishments as
  President of the U.S.
• This is not in the reading, but where do you
  think Eisenhower got the idea of the interstate
  highway system?
• Describe the similarities and differences of John
  F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon during the 1960s
  election.
• Explain how television changed the Presidential
  campaign.
• When you are finished please study for the Cold
  War test on Friday. Chapters 17 and 19.

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Atomic Café video
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Thursday 4/2

• RAP
• What was the HUAC?
• Were they justified in their fear?
• Why or why not?
• Today
• Review Ch. 19.2
• Read and answer questions for 19.3 Eisenhower.
  DUE Friday! ?