:BEGINNING OF COLD WAR:
 :russia failed to leave eastern europe
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 :1946-47: post-war economic recession
 : caused by peace-time conversion
 : GIs coming back - displacement of blacks and women
 :GI BILL (servicemen's readjustment act of 1944):
 : provided for higher education for veterans
 : the majority of soldiers attended vocatinal technical school
 : $14.5 billion spent on educatin - doesn't help national debt but helps economy
 : also set up the va (veteran's administration) guarantees low-interest loans to GIs
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 :birth rate increases due to economic provisions from 1945-1960.
 :causes rush to suburbs and building of 13 million homes from 1948-58.
 :1946-1964 - 76.4 million babies born in america
 :doctor spock introduces the "spoil the kid theory"
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 :TRUMAN DOCTRINE:
 :meant to help greece and turkey fight communism.  the US gives $400 million of advisors and military aid.  trying to stop iron curtain from spreading
 :greece and turkey both came under the rule of opressive right-wing military regimes similiar to military facism
 :the underlying philosophyof the truman doctrine is containment.  this also leads to NATO
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 :MARSHALL PLAN (european recovery program):
 : gives money, food, and medical supplies to western europe to keep the countries from falling to communism.  the plan tried to combat a fall of the US ecomony that would stem from the fall of western european countries to communistic principles.
 :the plan pumped more than $12 billion dollars into europe from 1947-51
 : this plan is the economic side of the truman doctrine.  it was ver successful.  it returned a devistated europe to a healthy europe
 :PUMPKIN PAPERS:
 :loyalty board setup by truman in 1947 to check on reports of communist sympathy
 :1949 - whittaker chambers (a "reformed" communits party member) accuses algier hiss of being a communist spy.  hiss was involved in roosevelt's new deal.  hiss was at yalta and was involved in the u.n. and wanted peace which made conservatives identify him with communism.
 :in a hearing in the house - senator nixon questioned hiss and hiss denied doig aything wrong but hiss had some problems in his earlier life.  chambers produces some microfilm that had been aledgeldlu concealed inside a hollowed-out pumpkin in chambers garden.  these were the papers that hiss supposedly gave to chambers to take to moscow in the 1930s. the unamerican committee dropped the charges, but hiss sues chambers for liable.  the evidence in this suit is strong that chambers is still a communist.  by the end of the trial, the evidence pointed to the fact that hiss may have been a communist.  hiss was not convicted of espionage, but was put in jail for 5 years for perjury for telling the house that he never knew chambers well.
 :ROSENBERGS:
 :the resenbergs were charged with passin atomic bomb drawings to the russians.  they were convicted and killed.  the other conspirators helped te prosecution and were given jail time.  the rosenbergs claimed being frame because of anti-semitic and anti-communistic bias.
 :this trial was reminiscant of sacco and vanzetti.
 :the rosenbergs became symbols of anti-communism.
 :MCCARTHIESM:
 :senator joseph mccarthy (1909-1957)
 :elected to the senate in 1946 bylying about his wartime record and mudslingin his opponents.  the other senators di not like him.
 :in 1950 he tries to find a way to get re-elected.  he tells a women's club tht he has a list of 205 (the humber changed) men who are in the state department who are members of the communist party.  he carried a bloated briefcase that he claimed had all the evidence against the communists that really held a bottle of bourbon.
 :a senate committee investigated and found nothing true in his claims, but the were overlooked and he was supported by the media.
 :mccarthy mainly accused entertainers in radio, tv, theatre, and film.  during this time period, laws of evidence an constitutional rights did nt count during this time.  mccarthy was the most powerful man in washington for 4 years.  the president even cleared appointments through him.
 :in 1954, mccarthy begins to challenge the pentagon.  this went to far.  eisenhower was pro-army and mccarthy ticked ike off by messing with the army.  eisenhower turns on mccarthy and investigates and the media follows ike.  the person who turns on mccarthy most is edward r. murrow from cbs.
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