1 How did the Cold War affect the social and political climate in the United States during the 1950s? In particular, how do you explain McCarthyism and the Red Scare? Can you think of any modern parallels to these events, when fear and paranoia threatened basic American liberties? Elaborate.
As cold war intensified in the late 1940s to 1950s the threats posed by the communists in the US was named the Red scare (named after the red soviet flag).The Red scare orchestrated a great number of actions that had an enduring effect to the greater U.S society and its government. Federal employees were occasionally investigated to judge whether they were loyal to the government, as well as the policies of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. The scare mood connected …show more content…
In 1947 he announced what was to become known as the Truman Doctrine. What did this strategy entail? What was meant by containment? And who was George Kennan? What role did he have on early Cold War …show more content…
The Truman Doctrine was a great development for the country’s value of personal liberty and political freedom. Containment was a strategy which was placed forward to ensure that the cold war could not rise into greater levels of becoming a hot war. George Kennan was a U.S diplomat who established the containment concept in controlling the Soviet union by the U.S and its Allies.
Reference;
Strategies of Containment by Professor John Gaddis (2004),
4 Discuss how you see the "war on terrorism" as of this date. Do you think the United States should be engaged in such a war? Give reasons for or against this war and whether or not we are giving up our own principles to wage it.
War on terrorism is a global and classic simulacrum. Since the 9/11 the American war on terror has been in the high end occasionally reenergized by the media and also the public opinion on the matter. This war is a hiperreality which can be closely understood by the political and internal signifiers. The U.S government should be involved in war on terrorism since it grows stronger each time such an event happens. Reference; A O'Day - 2004 War on
As cold war intensified in the late 1940s to 1950s the threats posed by the communists in the US was named the Red scare (named after the red soviet flag).The Red scare orchestrated a great number of actions that had an enduring effect to the greater U.S society and its government. Federal employees were occasionally investigated to judge whether they were loyal to the government, as well as the policies of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. The scare mood connected …show more content…
In 1947 he announced what was to become known as the Truman Doctrine. What did this strategy entail? What was meant by containment? And who was George Kennan? What role did he have on early Cold War …show more content…
The Truman Doctrine was a great development for the country’s value of personal liberty and political freedom. Containment was a strategy which was placed forward to ensure that the cold war could not rise into greater levels of becoming a hot war. George Kennan was a U.S diplomat who established the containment concept in controlling the Soviet union by the U.S and its Allies.
Reference;
Strategies of Containment by Professor John Gaddis (2004),
4 Discuss how you see the "war on terrorism" as of this date. Do you think the United States should be engaged in such a war? Give reasons for or against this war and whether or not we are giving up our own principles to wage it.
War on terrorism is a global and classic simulacrum. Since the 9/11 the American war on terror has been in the high end occasionally reenergized by the media and also the public opinion on the matter. This war is a hiperreality which can be closely understood by the political and internal signifiers. The U.S government should be involved in war on terrorism since it grows stronger each time such an event happens. Reference; A O'Day - 2004 War on