Truman hastily enacted plans to contain communism in America after seeing that Communist in China had almost full control of country (slideshare.net). In the United States, the thought of the spread of communism was becoming so much of a worry that President Truman created a foreign policy just on anticommunism. Truman hastily enacted plans to contain communism in America. He also created several domestic policies (apstudynotes.org). In 1947, President Truman issued Executive Order 9835, which authorized the attorney general to list Fascist, Communist, or subversive organizations, and made membership or even sympathetic association with such group’s grounds for dismissal (apstudynotes.org).
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
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.
The Soviet Union saw this opportunity to expand its communistic views to other countries and began to do so by establishing satellite states throughout Eastern Europe, also know as the iron curtain. It was evident that Russia was on a mission to become a world super power and had done so with the ability to launch nuclear weapons. The distrust of America and Russia was no secret. With strong conflicting views of capitalism and communism, tensions between the nations were always high and have been before the 60’s. In 1949, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were found guilty of being Russian spies and were executed for providing Russia with secrets of the construction of the Atomic bomb (The Atom Spy Case.
The second case involved the Rosenbergs giving information on the atomic bomb to the Soviets. The Rosenbergs were found guilty and executed. In the 50s Senator McCarthy began accusing people of being communist without proof. If someone challenged him he would respond with another accusation This pattern was later dubbed McCarthyism. He finally met his downfall when he tried to accuse the army of being communist in 1954.
However, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it”. (Preamble of the Declaration of Independence). Thoreau also had a side to his argument that sometimes people must take their liberation into their own hands and must utilize their right to peaceful protest. Thus justifying (and explaining) Thoreau’s not-so-subtle hint at civil disobedience, which the reader would be wise to notice, was the avenue that Mr. Thoreau himself chose to explore.
Rector Michael Mompellion is the contrast to these characters as he is someone who displays someone who has changed from a person who valued compassion and love to someone who loses all faith and turns to value power and strength. Josiah Bont demonstrates his value for power and strength through the treatment of Anna’s Mother and Anna. He articulates this form of strength through his numerous beatings of Anna, “I told you, you would learn at me knee, and you damn well do as I tell ye. Someone fetch me a muzzle for this school!” this quote accentuates Josiah’s Bont’s power over Anna, but also his value to show dominion over her as he is willing to muzzle her and beat her in order for her to obey his commandments. Again his power over Anna is displayed through her quote “There was a gob of spittle forming in my mouth… If I did so in front of his tavern friends he would beat me senseless” which articulates Joss Bonts determination to show his supremacy and controllability over his daughter as well his misogynist traits towards his own daughter.
Antigone’s pride came from her respect for her family and honoring the gods and their divine law, while Creon’s pride was an arrogant trait. Tiresias, the blind prophet claims Creon will lose his family for the crimes of leaving Polyneices unburied. Creon later realizes his mistaken pride. For example, “Fate has brought all of my pride to a thought of dust (Creon, Exodus).” This quote reveals that Tiresias’ prophecy or fate had portrayed Creon’s downfall, yet still filled with pride, refused to admit to his wrong doing. After Creon’s family’s deaths, Creon’s pride crumbles as he realizes he was wrong in his actions.
Stalin’s country nicknamed themselves the “Soviet Union” and he got Roosevelt and Churchill to agree that he and the Soviet Union could declare war on Japan once Hitler and Germany were defeated. They also agreed that an organisation called the United Nations was to be set up, here all the powerful people from each country could discuss issues with each other and ask for help. Roosevelt and Stalin pushed away their previous arguments and seemed to become friends. However they met again in a city called Yalta, in Russia, and, upon discovering there closeness to the defeat of Germany, they decided more conditions and policies for when defeat had been reached. They
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