Communist state

World War II, the Cold War began to heat up as the world’s two biggest powers vied for control of third world countries. On the left, the Soviet Union employed communist principles, while the United States fought for democracy. Following Truman’s Executive Order 9835, the purging of communist principles seeped into industry in the United States. On October 20, 1947, the notorious Red Scare began to infiltrate the biggest propaganda source: Hollywood. As a congressional committee known as the…

During the 1950’s, many innocent people in America were accused of Communist ideals. Joseph McCarthy was in charge of the bulk of the accusations by convicting members of the government, Hollywood actors, authors, and publishers. Many people lost their jobs and reputation from these events. Because of McCarthy's accusations against particular groups of people, and existing high tensions from the ongoing Cold War in America, people were arrested and blacklisted by others for communism. Joseph…

their unstable economy, a political uprising was beginning. Riots and coup attempts spread throughout the country, which intensified when, in 1965, a group of communists known as the 30 September Movement, killed six senior army generals (McGregor). In the months that followed the attack, the government murdered hundreds of thousands of communists in an attempt to silence them, in which they believed that they were justified. (Cribb and Ford).…

Vietnam War was a war between South Vietnam, supported by the United States, and North Vietnam, supported by the Soviet Union, that lasted for eleven years from 1964 to 1975. Before Vietnam was separated into separated two countries in 1954, Vietnam was a colony under the control of the French. Vietnam was controlled respectively by the Chinese, French, Japanese, the French again, and, finally, Ho Chi Minh. Minh was a communist, who led a group of Vietnamese patriots, named Vietminh, and he…

first being a foundation of distrust and distain for the U.S. by communist nations, allied states, and inhabitants of the U.S. The second portion focuses primarily on the actual dismantling of the U.S. through both internal and external erosion of the large state by the proletariat and communist powers. Although Mao’s intent is to inspire revolution in the U.S. and allied countries while strengthening nationalism in communist states; he employs repetition, uses the past to predict the future,…

the United States and Soviet Union had been hostile way before this and having to struggle with the communism in “The Red Scare” (Gerdes, Barbour, and Cothran 10). The history events that we see and hear of now were often caused by civilians, but during this time, Cold War and the Red Scare, it seemed as if both sides of this fight thought they were doing the right thing. In the end it did not bring what they wanted it to, it just brought death and devastation to all of the communist and…

1947, following First Red Scare, President Truman signed an Executive Order to screen federal employees for association with organizations considered “Totalitarian, subversive, Fascists, or Communist”. This era is characterized by heightened political repression as well as campaign spreading fear of Communist influence on American institutions. Along the new devised culture, started a practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper evidence. Senator Joseph McCarthy, known…

Nations General Assembly and stated “Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind” (Kennedy). The Cold War was one of the longest, most poignant periods in United States history. It involved a deep, wide spread fear that Communism would pervade the world and invade the United States, causing a state of political hostility between the Soviet Bloc and the US-led Western powers. It lasted from the late 1940’s until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Cold War was…

War II, an anti-communist movement emerged in the United States. This period, which was known as the Red Scare, emerged after the war in the mid-1940’s and lasted into the 1950’s. During the Red Scare, the fear of communism was prevalent both within the government and among private citizens. There were a variety of factors, both international and domestic, that led to the post war Red Scare, and the phenomenon ultimately had a negative effect on civil liberties in the United States. The main…

symbolizes the pure terror of Communism during the time of the Cold War. The man associated with McCarthyism is named Joseph McCarthy. This time in history created pure madness in America. Joseph McCarthy upset our government by creating a fear of a Communist government and Victims of McCarthyism could never restore their reputations while the American Society locked into a time of uneasiness due to the fear of Communism. Most historians consider the man born on November fourteenth 1908 as the…