Therefore the conspiracists where pointing fingers in the wrong direction. A lot of situations show that bush and Cheney aren’t smart enough to pull off such a conspiracy. Those who believe that the government conspired to perform the attack in 9/11 are mostly socialists or communists .Liberalists do too which is only expected since they tend to mistrust the government and attach conspiracies to an assumed enemy. Those political views emerge from Marxism which has always viewed those who rule as the bad ones. So to the leftists the agencies are the ones who rule and therefore the bad ones, thus of course they’d have to blame them for 9/11.Some overestimate the US government’s abilities to control damage or underestimate the Arab’s abilities to cause it and accordingly they claim that it must’ve been an inside job since the US agencies didn’t stop it.
McCarthy spearheaded an effort to rid the country of Communism in a mass movement called the Red Scare. During the Scare, thousands of innocent citizens were accused of holding Communist sympathies, accusations which had little or no evidence to support them. Arthur Miller, appalled by the wide approval with which McCarthy’s actions were received, set about trying to convince the public of the spuriousness of the charges and attempted to reveal the greed and fear which motivated them. Realizing that any overt criticism would be rationalized by the public, he sought to describe another more removed event that would serve as a parallel to the Red Scare. Due to the striking similarities between the two events, Miller chose the Salem witch trials to represent the Red Scare in his play The Crucible.
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.
Vince Gonzalez History 148 11:30 10/13/12 The Containment Strategy 1. My topic is how America contained the Soviet Union, called for by an author, George F. Keenan, who later became a very influential advisor for Truman. 2. The Soviet Union viewed capitalism as a monster, which would consume the entire world with hedonistic abandon. America viewed Communism as an evil belief to kill the rights and liberties of all mankind.
When Communism became something real and physical, America felt their economy was even more endangered, concerned that it would spread to them and destroy what they had. Communism and Capitalism are opposite concepts, and so the Americans greatly feared Communism, something that put, what they considered to be, an excellent society in jeopardy. A drastic change was too large for them to cope with, and was one they saw as negative, fearful it would result in the deconstruction of a stable society. There will always be an inevitable conflict when Communism and Capitalism are pitched against each other, and so the Americans felt threatened by this. The West felt threatened by Communism too because it caused Russia to pull out of the war, thus losing them a good ally.
McCarthy saw this fear as an opportunity to rise to power. He ruthlessly used scare tactics to get people to believe and follow him blindly into his accusations as to innocent citizens supporting communism and either having them jailed or killed by providing phony evidence. Known as McCarthyism the overly-paranoid “witch hunts” for infiltrators began. People were accused of being communists and found guilty with barely any say for themselves. Anyone could be named and they would suffer, just because they were “outsiders”.
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
Jordin Dickerson To what extent did ideology serve as the primary catalyst to the Cold War? During WWII, tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union were definitely strained. They had to join together because they had one common enemy, Nazi Germany; but after that, they began to turn on each other. The Soviets seeing the United States as a capitalist nation that turns its back on its allies where as the United States sees the Soviets as “Communist Russians” that are spreading the awful idea of communism. That one, simple word caused perhaps one of the biggest controversies and rivalries in history.
Organizations such as the HUAC were corrupt and overflowing with power at the time, ruining lives for their own self indulgence. It was a time to be afraid of everyone and everything, because you never knew who might be a communist spy for Russia. O 2. Red Scare (first and second) The first red scare was brought about by the immense and widespread fear of Bolshevism