AUHIS 251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Dalton Trumbo, Dean Acheson, Mao Zedong
30 Sep 2018
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Made a speech at delta state university in mississippi. Contain communism and not let it expand. Started running over a list of countries, but forgot to mention korea. Triggered something in north korea and russia. In 1950"s north korea invaded the south. Mao becomes leader and stays until his death in 1976. Includes western europe all the way to turkey. Turkey was geographically crucially important bridge between asia and europe. Macarthur called back into service for korean war. There is no peace treaty so technically the war hasn"t officially ended. Unrealistic fear in us of communism and soviet spies. A committee in congress to determine the americanness of americans. Scripts were being monitored to make sure they weren"t closet communistic . Wrote some interesting story lines about rebellions against authority figure. Claimed there were at least 200 soviet spies that were taking orders from. Dragging people to washington on un-american committee. More and more americans are doing well.
