Alger Hiss

Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Cuba were used as the culmination of the disagreements between the two superpowers (“The Cold War Erupts” 1-2). While battles waged on all over the globe, there were battles commencing within America such as the case of Alger Hiss. Alger Hiss was born on November 11, 1904 in Baltimore, Maryland (Sentman 168). He attended Baltimore City Colleges, John Hopkins University, Harvard University, and then earned a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1929. Also in 1929, Alger married Priscilla…

implement a new loyalty program which would require all of the government officials to go through a loyalty investigation. Truman 's program failed miserably because he had investigated over 2 million workers and fired 140 of them and did not find one spy. Truman succeeded to put in America’s minds the idea that communists had to be all over or Truman wouldn 't do this in the first place. Later in 1947, America and Russia officially began the cold war. In the year 1948, Alger Hiss, a well known…

Hiss went to Harvard and Johns Hopkins, graduating to become a consultant to the Department of Justice (“Alger Hiss.” 413) His successful career was cut short when ex-Communist and senior editor of Time Magazine Whittaker Chambers accused Hiss of being a member of the Communist party (“Alger Hiss.” 414) He identified him as being a part of a Communist cell which had been organized in Washington D.C. in the mid-1930s (“Alger Hiss.” 414) Chambers went on to claim that Hiss's role was to encourage…

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…

former director of the FBI, received a memorandum that read, “Wire dispatches on June 7 1951, state Maclean and Burgess have defected behind the Iron Curtain… Our files reflect a contact between M[a]clean and Alger Hiss on October 19, 1946… Both contacts have related solely to official business.” Burgess and Maclean fled at the seemingly perfect time, leaving their allies and foes to deal with the repercussions of their actions. Leaving others (namely, members of the general public) to deal…

prosecuted by their own nation. Loyalty to one another barely existed, since people could not rely on dependency for each other in the fear of being turned in. The desire towards unavailing searches for communists, drove away attention towards helping others. Although McCarthyism feed the growth of national security to protect against communist infiltration, federal agents attacked labor unions and individual rights. This discouraged people from conducting reforms, as they would become targets.…

varneshia Hart The founder of communism is Karl Marx. Karl Marx believed there shouldn’t be upper or lower classes. In the passage it states “once everyone owned all things in common, class distinction would be erased”, since the beginning came to an end. This explains Marx‘s belief in posing a domestic threat through The Cold War and the era of McCarthyism and The Red Score. This was a hard but confusing time for many including Karl Marx. Cold war debated that they had high evidence about the…

McCarthyism established fear among Americans about the rise of communism within America. However, McCarthyism exploited an already feared thought of many Americans, making the situation even more tense than it was beforehand. Amidst fear of the rise of Communism in America, the article states, “In fact, the government’s efforts to stem the spread of Communism at home began well before McCarthy’s rise.”Consequently, McCarthyism invoked immense fear into next to everybody, turning neighbor…

and it citizens become gripped by a self affirming, nationally unifying, fear of communism, called the second "Red Scare". It was driven by the Committee on Un-American Activities, and characterized by duck and cover drills in elementary schools, bomb shelter construction, and witch hunts for spies embedded in government institutions. Furthermore, it motivated many to build bomb shelters, distrust their neighbors and worry that their Judeo -Christian way of life was coming to an end. While…

social views, and helped create an even more diverse culture. During the 1950’s, one of the many trends conservatives rejected were communist beliefs and the idea of communists in the State Department, which is the lead U.S foreign affairs agency. On February 11, 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy sent a telegram to the former US president, Harry S. Truman, demanding the names of those placed in the State Department because they were considered security risks due to their communist connections. To…