harold kim philby joined the british communist party in 1933... worked as a journalist, then joined...
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Harold “Kim” Philby• Joined the British
Communist Party in 1933
• . . . worked as a journalist, then joined British intelligence (MI-6).
• . . . served as a spy for the Soviet Union.
• . . . then defected to the Soviet Union.
Democratic Party 3-way split, 1948
Strom Thurmond and the Dixiecrats
Henry Wallace and the Progressive Party
Incumbent Harry Truman
ThePresidential
election of 1948
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20,000,000
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Popular vote
Truman (24.1million)Dewey (21.9million)Thurmond (1.6million)Wallace (1.1 million)
Thomas (139,000)
Tom Dewey
The U.S. Communist Party
• 1917, February and October Revolutions
• 1920 U.S. Communist Party formed
• 1933 Popular Front period
• 1939 anti-intervention
• 1941 pro-intervention
Mr. Potato Head• Invented in
Rhode Island in 1952.
• Manufacturers didn’t like the
idea at first, were afraid parents
wouldn’t want to waste food.
• Plastic parts made item
cheaper, then just add a potato
(or any vegetable for that matter).
Barbie, 1959
The Kitchen Debate, 1959
Players:Vice President
Richard Nixon vs.
Soviet Premier
Nikita Khruschev
(with future Premier
Brezhnev on the right)
Starring:Leonard Bernstein
Lee J. Cobb
Aaron Copland
Dashiell Hammett
Lena Horne
Langston Hughes
Burl Ives
Gypsy Rose Lee
Burgess Meredith
Arthur Miller
Zero Mostel
Edward G. Robinson
Pete Seeger
William L. Shirer
Orson Welles
The Smith Act (1940) and the McCarran Act (1950)
• Smith Act: "Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States . . . by force or violence . . .
• . . . shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both . . . ”
• McCarran Act: illegal to conspire to act in a way that will "substantially contribute" to the establishment of a totalitarian dictatorship in America
McCarthy era movies• The Caine Mutiny,
1955– Based on the Herman
Wouk novel. The movie required
permission from The Navy to be released!• From Here to Eternity,
1953, a novel cleaned up for The Army!
– Houses of prostitution turned into USO clubs!
– In the novel the sadistic head of the Army prison is promoted!
– In the film he gets fired!– In the novel one adulterous Army
wife suffers from venereal disease!
– In the movie she has a miscarriage!• On the Waterfront, 1954
Elia Kazan
Four excuses for ratting on your friends:
1. American communists silently approved of Soviet oppression
2. Communism is bad and needed to be exposed
3. They would have turned on me if they had the chance
4. Communists had power over Hollywood scripts
Father John Coughlin of Detroit
Reverend Billy Graham
Fox news poll, 2005:
90% believe in God
87% believe in heaven
84% miracles
74% hell
67% Devil
Going to church (regularly):
1920: 43%
1940: 49%
1950: 55%
1956: 62%
1960: 70% (almost)