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Joseph McCarthy was born in 1908 in Appleton, Wisconsin. He attended school until he was fourteen but dropped out in eighth grade to help on the family farm as well as raise chickens. At the age of twenty, he decided to go back to school and in one year went through ninth to twelfth grades to graduate. He graduated with honors yet he told people he had higher grades than he actually earned. (Morgan 2003) Ted Morgan in Legal Affairs noted that McCarthy’s high school grades were below 90 due to…

Everyday Life in The North Korean Revolution 1945-1950, and Hazel Smith’s book Markets and Military Rule support or challenge conventional wisdom. However, ways to analysis North Korea are different between two authors. Suzy Kim explains North Korea by using words, whereas Hazel Smith use numbers to analyze North Korea. Seeing politics, economy, and society of North Korea from different two views of Suzy Kim and Hazel Smith is the good way of understanding how North Korean state has been built.…

The finger of who started the Cold War can be pointed at Truman, Stalin, and Churchill. There are many reasons for the start of the war and not all of the blame can truly be placed on one person. With that being said, there is one person who can be held more accountable than all the rest. I see Josef Stalin as being most responsible for the outbreak of the Cold War. He was the leader of the Soviet Communist Party for over thirty years. He was a dictator who took complete control and was seeking…

their tracks. Although there were many other times during the Cold War that the United States attempted to contain communism like the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan, three examples are very clear. The three examples were; the Berlin Wall, the Korean War, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Today it is important to understand the policy of containment because it knowing that some things just need to be under control and there is some way that it can be taken care of. There is something to do to…

The President’s Barber is a fiction film that tells a story of a barber and his family through many decades of Korean history, specifically focusing on the political aspect. Although the film is fiction, it uses real South Korean figures and events throughout the movie as a way to get the audience more engaged for which they may have known those figures or events in their time as citizens. For those who were not around during the time that those figures or events have occurred, the film was able…

Men and women that went to Vietnam came back plagued with gruesome stories of all the things they did and some never came back at all. The Vietnam War was the most unpopular war the United States had ever been involved in. Unlike WWI, WWII, or the Korean War the veterans were not welcomed home. They hid their involvement from the war to stay away from the judgement they would have received from some members of society. The soldiers normalized death and destruction while in Vietnam so it became…

The post WWII propaganda saw a strong link emerge between many political actions of the two superpowers and the fight to ideological supremacy, as the governments inadvertently campaign for public support of their ideology. Corresponding with the rising ideological pride, the pressure and threat of the enemy saw the governments begin efforts to use political movements to discredit the capability of the rival ideology. This ideological pressure clearly burdened both the American and Soviet…

United States wanted to keep communism within the Russian borders. They wanted to contain it. Containment was the United States’ attempt to keep communism from spreading, and it was done by giving aid to West Germany and fighting for South Korea in the Korean War. After World War…

As World War II comes to an end, so did one of the alliances held during it between the world’s new super powers, The United States and the Soviet Union. This marks the renewal of the great Red Scare as well as the start of the fight against the spread of communism, and at this time the United States was led by President Harry S. Truman. He would adopt his policy of Containment against the Soviet Union to try and just contain the communist threat to the USSR instead of making a war trying to…

"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. " [Nixon]. In order to understand this event, one ultimately needs to examine the cause and every possible perspective of that cause. After World War II, the Vietnamese people anticipated reunification and democracy away from French rule. The Vietnamese were hindered heavily by French colonialism, resulting in the increasing popularity of communist revolutionary, Ho Chi…