Winston Smith: “In accordance to the principles of Doublethink, it does not matter if the war is not real, or when it is, that victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labor. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects. And its object is not victory over Eurasia or Eastasia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.”

"It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same--everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same--people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world."- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 10

• Bolshevik Revolution 1917 threat to all capitalistic countries

• 1919-Red Scare (1st in America)• 1933 US Recognizes the Soviet Union• 1939 Soviets sign the Non-Aggression Pact• Bombing of Pearl Harbor and the invasion of

the Soviet Union by the Germans makes the US and the Soviet Union convenient allies in WWII.

•United Nations is created in 1945 and is supposed to act as a general assembly created to provide representation to all nations•The UN was dominated by a lot of pro-west democratic countries.•US offers for the Soviet Union to join the (World Bank) which will fund war torn countries and help them rebuild however the Soviets decline and say that the bank is too capitalistic•United States heads a new organization the North Atlantic Treaty Organization formed in 1949 Western Euro countries with North American Countries for mutual protection and funding

• 1946 USSR remain as occupation forces in Central and Eastern Europe

• Election are held but are manipulated to put loyal dictators loyal to the USSR installed in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Albania.

• USSR will use the countries as satellite countries or a buffer zone in case of a future western invasion

• US and Britain call this a violation of the rights of the people of these countries

• Soviets create the Warsaw Pact in 1955. It consists of communist countries. It is a mutual protection pact that counters NATO.

• Soviets take over half of Germany; they want a weak Germany

• US & Britain want to rebuild Germany to create stability

• Germany is split in half. Berlin gets split in half. Berlin airlift takes place in 1948(the wall is built in 1961.)

• Winston Churchill declares the Soviet Union as the Iron Curtain in 1946 (USSR first successful nuclear test 1949)

• 1946 China: the Communists led by Mao Zedong and the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek, break into open conflict after WWII

• The civil war in China ends in 1949 with a Communist victory

• Some Americans attack the Truman administration for losing China

• After WWII Korea is divided into 2 separate countries, at the 38th Parallel

• The policy of containing communism (Marshall Plan) leads the U.S. to provide military support for South Korea

• June 25, 1950 North Korea invades South Korea and the Korean war begins

• United Nation troops are sent in to assist South Korea.

• June 27, 1950 520,000 troops are sent by 10 nations to assist South Korea and just over 90% of them are from the US

• General Douglas MacArthur Sept. 15, 1950 achieves a brilliant counter attack victory over North Korea and then the UN decides to invade North Korea over the 38th parallel to try to reunite Korea

• China warns the UN that it will have a real problem with the US coming to the boarder of China

• China aides North Korea in this war

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• Mac wants to invade China and use atomic weapons on their major cities• Truman thinks MacArthur is crazy and then the war of words begins and

Truman ends up firing Mac• July 27, 1953 the Korean War ends in a stalemate• 54,000 Americans die in the Korean War• The war cost America over $20 billion • Americans reject the Democratic Party and in 1952 elect Dwight D.

Eisenhower• The war increased fear of Communist aggression and even fear of

communists living in America • Can U.S. aggression Korean War compare with Soviet aggression with the

satellite nations?

McCarthyism• Senator from Wisconsin that headed the House Un-American

Activities Committee (HUAC)• Made the accusations that actors and directors in Hollywood

were Communists (Hollywood Ten)• Also made the accusation that more than 200 card carrying

communists had infiltrated the U.S. government• The height of the witch hunts was from 1950-1953• None of the accusations had any merit and all were proven

untrue