Sandra Dunmore 2118 U.S. Hist.1311 The Cold War The Cold War by Jeremy Isaac and Taylor Downing is a book about the history of the U.S. In this book the author talks about how communism has been a part of U.S. history since the eighteenth century. Soviet Union leaders, such as Marx, Lenin, and Stalin continued to spread communism to other nations. The Cold War was not a war of weapons but a war to stop the spread of communism. The book goes into details about how the United States used every media outlet to convince the public of the horrors of communism.
He actually came up with a list of people inside the U.S. government that were affiliated with communist activity. He also later on helped catch Alger Hiss who was an actual U.S.S.R. spy. Thanks to the president during that time period (JFK) he resolved it by agreeing to take our missiles out of Turkey if they take theirs out of Cuba. After resolving this crisis the Red Scare went downhill from there and eventually we acted like it never
After World War two, the world split into two distinct camps. Propaganda was use to justify or condemn about such as the United States and the Soviet Union became engaged in proxy wars against one another. As a result, propagandists ought to portray an enemy nation as harboring all the qualities that were adverse to their own conception of liberty and progress. The differences between American capitalist democracy and Soviet socialist totalitarianism came from their systems. The American government went out of its way to portray communists as scarier and more not the same as what Americans were.
Joseph McCarthy was a very strong anti-communist. The HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) made searches for communists in government, called witnesses to testify, and guaranteed Americans that the government was doing the best they could to find spies from the Soviet Union. The HUAC testified Lionel Stander. I agree with Stander’s portrayal of the HUAC committee and Joseph McCarthy. Joseph McCarthy was a supporter of the HUAC.
To Australia, this treaty was to combat communism alongside the US. In 1950, Robert Menzies introduced the Communist Party Dissolution Bill when the Communist Party Australia (CPA) received financial support from the Communist International and started to have influence on trade unions and the Australian Labor Party. This Bill would make the party illegal and communists would have little threat against Australia. Again, Australia’s first defence was put into use – their fear thriving from the evidence stated
Then there were the Viet Cong, insurgents who were aided by the North Vietnamese. Finally, there was the United States who sent troops to prevent the South Vietnamese government from collapsing. North Vietnam was run by communist Ho Chi Minh. The communists were trying to force South Vietnam into communism and anyone who disagreed was killed. People in South Vietnam were the enemy of North Vietnam because they were
The Truman Doctrine’s Influence on the Cold War Harry Truman was the 33rd President of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. The U.S. and Russia were allies during World War II. They had undividedly diverse government systems, the authority- craving Stalin (Russia’s leader) and the anti- isolationist Truman, which caused hostility between Russian and the United States. The disparity in patriotic concepts revealed by Stalin and the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill would instigate the route to the Cold War. The tactics exercised by the U.S. and Great Britain were created to impede the Soviet Union’s endeavor to explicate pushover communist governments over subverted nations, with this approach Truman exposed his doctrine which pursued a responsibility in determining U.S. relevance’s.
The leader of the Liberal Party , Robert Menzies, promised Australians that he would introduce legislation to rule out the Communist Party. Many Australians believed that the wealth and economy of Australia was threatened by the communists who gained access to Australia’s trade unions and political parties. Many things contribute to the fear of communism including the active communist members of the waterfront, shipping, coal and heavy metal industry since the 1920’s In 1950, the Liberal Party government led by Roberts Menzies introduced the Communist Party Dissolution Bill into Federal Parliament. The legislation gave power to the government to publicly declare any citizen a Communist and to imprison him/her from holding office in a range of public organizations, including trade unions. Ten trade union members and the Australian Communist Party decided to challenge the Bill in the High Court.
It is now clear that Julius, an avid communist, had for some time been disclosing U.S. military secrets to the U.S.S.R. from his post in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. David Greenglass, who himself had worked on the Manhattan Project, disclosed nuclear secrets to Julius, who in turn passed the information to Harry Gold — a courier for the espionage ring — who in turn passed it to Anatoly Yakovlev — the Soviet vice-consul in New York City. Soon after Gold was arrested in May 1950 for giving U.S. and British atomic secrets to Russia, Greenglass and Rosenberg were detained on the basis of their association with Gold. By cooperating with federal agents in proving the guilt of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Greenglass and Gold were given lighter sentences (Greenglass received 15 years in prison in a separate trial and Gold received 30 years in prison). The courts also made clear that if either of the Rosenbergs would admit to their espionage, they too could avoid execution, but the couple, loyal to their cause and riding a wave of public support, continued to adamantly state their innocence until their death on the day of June 19,
Anti-Communism & McCarthyism (1947-1954) Renee Abreu University of Phoenix Anti-Communism & McCarthyism (1947-1954) The cold war in America marked a period of historic political conflicts & military pressures that over time would cause nationwide anxiety due to a belief in communist infiltration of the US borders. As a result of this false belief the nation responded with anti-communist attacks on accused communists of which there were various political trials. By definition the term communism is “a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs (Google Dictionary: Communism).” Thus an anti-communist is basically an individual who opposes this view and in the case of