America the land of the free and the home of the brave! America, as described and viewed both socially and politically is, in terms, a growing land of opportunity, a land of many peoples and immigrants, a country that proudly boasts of its freedoms. To many, America is a nation that was primarily founded on religion; to others, on freedom from religion. Whatever the argument may be to this day, America’s first amendment and freedom of religion is one of the most important, yet controversial topics. Like most of the first ten amendments to the Constitution, freedom of religion is a flexible right that American citizens can learn to adapt to their situation. Granted by the first amendment, citizens are allowed to freely practice, or to not practice
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Immensely different from WWII, during the Cold War, the United States moved its citizens the same way it it had previously done to rally support in World War II. “During the late 1940s and early 1950s, the prospect of communist subversion at home and abroad seemed frighteningly real to many people in the United States. These fears came to define–and, in some cases, corrode–the era’s political culture” ("Joseph R. McCarthy"). For Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy, waiving a set of papers in the air while at a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia in 1950, he sought to build his political fortunes by issuing fear of communism into the people’s eyes by “announc[ing] he had a list of perhaps “a lot of”- communist in the state department” (Davison, 2011. 771). For many Americans, McCarthy was the most persisting figure of the Red Scare during the late 1940s and early 1950s; for five years McCarthy tried “in vain to expose communists and other left-wing “loyalty risks” in the U.S. government. “In the hyper-suspicious atmosphere of the Cold War, insinuations of disloyalty were enough to convince many Americans that their government was packed with traitors and spies. McCarthy’s accusations were so intimidating that few people dared to speak out against him,” ("Joseph R. McCarthy"). Even today, we don’t so easily trust Soviets. As Russian and Ukrainian tensions continue to escalate, many fear the border-nation’s dispute might expand globally and turn into a much larger war. For a dispute that ended almost three decades ago, America as a whole still portrays resentment of the events that took place decades ago during the Cold War and anti-communism
Immensely different from WWII, during the Cold War, the United States moved its citizens the same way it it had previously done to rally support in World War II. “During the late 1940s and early 1950s, the prospect of communist subversion at home and abroad seemed frighteningly real to many people in the United States. These fears came to define–and, in some cases, corrode–the era’s political culture” ("Joseph R. McCarthy"). For Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy, waiving a set of papers in the air while at a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia in 1950, he sought to build his political fortunes by issuing fear of communism into the people’s eyes by “announc[ing] he had a list of perhaps “a lot of”- communist in the state department” (Davison, 2011. 771). For many Americans, McCarthy was the most persisting figure of the Red Scare during the late 1940s and early 1950s; for five years McCarthy tried “in vain to expose communists and other left-wing “loyalty risks” in the U.S. government. “In the hyper-suspicious atmosphere of the Cold War, insinuations of disloyalty were enough to convince many Americans that their government was packed with traitors and spies. McCarthy’s accusations were so intimidating that few people dared to speak out against him,” ("Joseph R. McCarthy"). Even today, we don’t so easily trust Soviets. As Russian and Ukrainian tensions continue to escalate, many fear the border-nation’s dispute might expand globally and turn into a much larger war. For a dispute that ended almost three decades ago, America as a whole still portrays resentment of the events that took place decades ago during the Cold War and anti-communism