HIST 1025 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Executive Order 9835, Brownie Mcghee, Mao Zedong
Document Summary
Song: the robbie-doby boogie by brownie mcghee (1948) Song about jackie robinson (broke the race barrier of baseball and was one of the best players of the time, stole bases like crazy) and larry doby-also broke barrier. The domestic red scare: truman, mccarthy, and beyond. Remember- americans viewed any world conflict as being a result of communism. Soviets detonate atomic bomb (ended u. s. monopoly on atomic weapons) Korea- north korean troops invaded the south in 1950. U. s. pushed past the dividing line between north and south korea. Mccarthy is warned to not to get too close to china. He ignores and gets close to the border of china, and 300,000 chinese invade. Dmz was re-established at nearly the same place. Korean war- political results in the u. s. : helped eisenhower president (1952, truman strengthened presidential power, military action to enforce containment policy, reinforced bipolar world view.
