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.
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.
a) When we place these two sets of rituals of the “red menace” in the 1950’s, and the “Palmer raids” in the 1920’s we see some differences. The red menace occurred in the 1950s around the Cold War time period; it involved communist parties in the Soviet Union. The red scare only grew. “Like a prairie-fire“, wrote Palmer. With the Palmer raids there was a man named Mitchell Palmer who was a Quaker.
McCarthyism was a very passionate anti-communist attitude started by Senator Joe McCarthy in the early 1950s. While the idea was supporting the American anti-communist fight, McCarthyism was known to be a bit extreme in its actions. In it’s early days McCarthyism gained many supporters, but as years drew on Americans became weary of Sen. McCarthy’s zealous endeavors. On February 9, 1950, the Republican Senator Joe McCarthy made the bold, though uninformed, statement that our precious United States had been sold out by the “traitorous actions” of men that held important and respected government offices. According to McCarthy, there was a large conspiracy occurring in the State Department by 205 Communists.
Using the above reasoning, the U.S. has encouraged extremist governments, toppled democracies, as in the case of Iran to replace it with a monarchy, rigged elections, and many more unspeakable political crimes for U.S. businesses abroad. Lets not also forget the Red Scare. During the war between the then Soviet Union and Afghanistan, the U.S. armed and supported the Taliban, a fundamentalist Muslim
Ultimately American fear allowed for the creation of McCarthyism, which was an intense effort to root out Communists from every corner of society by any means necessary. McCarthyism influenced hatred of communism and of the Soviet Union by proposing that communist spies had infiltrated the United States government. Fear of communism in America led to an extreme distrust of all Communist countries across the globe. In fact the fear and hatred of Communism McCarthy sent across the nation was so strong, it droves America into many proxy wars against the Soviet influence. Korea, China, and Vietnam all encountered conflict with Americans during the Cold War.
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
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.
After World War II, all of the America was in fear and terror that communism in the face of the Soviet Union could gain world domination, especially since half of Europe was under the influence of Stalin. In connection with this, in 1947, the 33rd U.S. President Harry Truman ordered a review of all government employees. There were many willing to save the country from communists, but the most successful of all was the senator from Wisconsin, Joseph Raymond McCarthy. February 9, 1950, he gave a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia in which he declared that the United States Government was filled with Communists and in the Office of Dean Acheson who was the Secretary of State under Truman, the number had reached 205 people. This event is considered to be
Restrictions on Civil Liberties These are just a few events that show the restrictions on civil liberties. Red Scare, Prohibition, Palmer Raids, Trials of Sacco and Vanzetti. The Red Scare is the fear of the rise of communism or radical leftism. The Red Scare began following the Bolshevik Russian Revolution. Was a nationwide anti hysteria provoked by a mounting fear was a revolution that changed then American way of life.