How Did The Cold War Change American Society

Fear changes people, this was eminent in the 40s/50s with the growing of totartalistic, communist state. Americans lives were dramatically changed just because of the fright of communist in ally nations. Friends targetted friends, careers were ruined, corrupt parts of the government, so many changes were made during this time, and America would forever be scarred by the anti-communist battle. In the American mind, the communist were a huge arising problem, and Truman was too soft on communism. Truman needed to address this problem, his plan of action was to set up the Federal Employee Program. The program ended up investigating 3.2 employees, 212 employees were security risk and were dismissed well another 2,900 resigned because they believed the investigation violated their rights. Congress though the loyalty board wasn't enough. In 1950, Congress passed the McCarran International Security Act. The act may have lead to the establishment of a totalitarianism government, luckily …show more content…
Communist spies rated on other spies and people were accused of giving nuclear codes to the Soviet. Throughout the search for Soviet spies, a few people were found. An example was Alger Hiss. Alger Hiss was accused of espionage in 1948, and was sent to jail because of the pursuit of Richard Nixon. The Rosenbergs case rocked the nation, partially because of the international disputes occurring simultaneously. On September 3, 1949, the Soviet blew its first atomic bomb, but American experts estimated it will take a minimum of 3 years to craft this weapon. The reason must be because we have spies leaking information on the bomb to our enemy, opening up Fuchs case. German born physicist Klaus Fuchs admittedly leaked information on the bomb but this couldn't be the doing of one person, next Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were implicated into the case. The Rosenbergs pleaded the fifth, and inevitably were sent to