McCarthy and McCarthism

1 Who was Joshep McCarthy?
He was a republican senator born in Wisconsin.

2 What were his politics?
McCarthy had anti-communist politics.

3 What were the first accusations he made?
In 1950 he showed a piece of paper during a speech, that paper was a list of 205 supposed active communists.

4 Why do you think the American public believed him?
Because during the cold war, the suspicion and paranoia, mixed with the fear to communist infiltration in the society grew, and with the idea McCarthy had, americans wanted communists out of power.

5 What other people did he go on acuse? What were the foundations of his accusations?
Joseph accused government employees, trade union activists and people in the entertainment industry aswell as members of the army.

6 How and why did the raction of the American public change?
When McCarthy accused officers of the US army and the public was able to see his interrogation methods his support became to decrease quickly. The americans realized the McCarthy was abusing his power and was accusing mainly with no sense even though some of the accusations were true

Civil Rights Movement

The Cold War

REPORT ABOUT THE CUBAN CRISIS TO MR.JFK

Mr. president,

At first we noticed lot´s of movements in the island of Cuba so the decision to investigate was taken and we have some evidences and photographs that our spy planes have taken in USSR bases of Cuba. In the picture we can see lot´s of tracks with missiles and fuel tanks to manke the missile erector work. This is very dangerous because only by pressing the "Red Button" this missiles would  be launched and get to south US in 10 min or to north in 20 min. That means that in less of 30 min 8 million of americans could die.

We have several choices to offer you, in our opinion we should try to negotiate with the USSR and try to make them remove the bases. If the don´t agree with us we could put a blockade around Cuba to make the missiles return by force. In the extreme case they attack the blockade and try to break it our answer would be very clear, invade Cuba.

The consequences of the blockade would be:

• An upset of Russians, this may create a more tensioned situation.
• The soviets could try to break the blockade producing a big conflict.
• The blockade is perfect and soviets return, leaving Cuba and removing their bases without creating any conflict.

The consequences of the invasion would be:

• Another upset of the Ruusians, which would create for sure an enormous armed conflict.
• The soviets would see our power and fear and they decide not to start another war.
• Cuba island is so well defended that our invasion fails, this is not what we want in any case because we wouldn´t win anything, only another conflict.

From you advisors team we hope you decide the best option.

Welcome again

Hi, after the summer nothing more relaxing that starting again with the classes.😃
This year I expect to be more interesant than the last one. See you in our next proyect.