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AP U.S. History The Red Scare and The Eisenhower Years
Lecture Description
In this lesson, our instructor Elizabeth Turro gives an introduction on the Red Scare and the Eisenhower years. She talks about the second Red Scare, Alger Hiss, HUAC, anti-communist hysteria, McCarthyism, anti-communism, the Red Scare, protest of HUAC, Red Channels, Ethel, Julius Rosenberg and Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Highway Act of 1956. She also explains the Space Race, the new look in foreign policy, containment the third world, decolonization of the Third World, containment in the Post-Colonial world, U.S. Global defense treaties in Cold War, SEATO and the role of the CIA. The other key points are containment policy, military industrial complex, military industrial map and spending graph.
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Post by Kathleen Etzel on April 6, 2016
Anyone interested more in the Second Red Scare, McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklists should watch the movie "Trumbo" (2015) with the amazing Bryan Cranston! It's a bit long but really tells the story well!