Interlude American 1950

federal civil defense administration

to “educate” the people about nuclear energy - propaganda

Project Nutmeg (3)

distance- less transport, cheaper

security - isolated, american territory

mormons - downwind, dont question government

nuclear proliferation (3)

more bombs

more powerful bombs

more countries have bombs (arm race)

Kinescope + Iconiscope

Kinescope catches image - iconiscope projects

2 problems with television

distance and light

Patent vs Royalty

Patent - license of exclusivity, US- who demonstrates first OTHER - who presents idea first

Royalty - pay fee

“Official debut of television” 1939

New York World Far, RCA (David Sarnof) took credit

Franklin Institute

PF demonstrates tv before RCA in 1934

Dumont

Tv station, paramount pictures, fell off (not enough viewers)

John Logie Baird

Spinning discs - mechanical TV

W3XPF

PF’s experimental tv channel

WLAC

50,000 Watt radio station, played black music + rock n roll across the country

Elvis as a civil rights activist

Played black music, proved white people could play it too

Alan Freed

Disc jockey who created the term rock n roll - black slang for sex

Sam Phillips

Sun records label owner, signed Elvis and black musicians

Edward R. Murrow

Pioneer radio newscaster → tv program SIN See It Now

PF + Zworykin backstories
Sarnof patent war

PF- no training, building everything himself, farm

VZ - phd, russian scientist, highly trained

Sarnof - RCA, tried to win tv patent, PF won, pyrich victory ( no recognition, by the time life returned to normal post war patent gone)

Masada - 73 AD

Can conquer the land not the people, mass suicide

Haydrian (emperor rule)

Jews resisted roman subjugation, Romans kicked them out, diaspora out of Palestine

Hertzl + Zionism (exclusivity)

Movement calling for Jews to return to their homeland

Israel chosen, SA + Africa considered

Jews ONLY

Great War

B+F vs Ottoman Empire in Palestine, B+F Won, control palestine

Balfor Declaration

Jewish homeland IN Palestine (Jews see OF)

Sykes-Picot Pact

Arab-State homeland in Palestine

Mandate from LoN

British mandated to prepare palestine for nationhood

Next Year in Jerusalem

End of service, return back to Palestine

Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 15

Everyone has a right to nationality

Kibbutzim

Jewish Community farms

Haganah + Irgun

Jewish Army

Terrorist Splinter Group - King David Hotel bombing of British officials

U.N. Solution to Israeli-Palestine Problem

B gave problem to U.N. - partition (didnt work, Jewish took over)

Pan Arab Nationalism (3)

Exclusivity

Expel Western Influences (keep outsiders out)

Keep resources for themselves (oil)

McDonald-White (3)

10,000 Jew quota (during holocaust)

appease hitler

pacify arabs

→ keep oil supply