Socialist Party of America

A proxy war is a war that involves opposing powers fighting against each other indirectly through third parties in order to gain power (Cold War, 2). During what is known as the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union engage in a proxy war. Each power doesn 't actually fire upon the other, but they aid the third party countries to win the fight. They used these client states to fight for their beliefs. In this Cold War fight, the Soviet Union’s goal was to spread worldwide Communism,…

was later named the Reconstruction Era. The Federal Government grew in both size and power during this time. The Republican Party began to…

slingshot to fire metal ball bearings at a group of African Americans, allegedly they also threw beer bottles at the men. Another incident in which Dominick was involved was at a party he attended. The party goers discussed traveling to Mississippi's capital to find African Americans to persecute. While some attendees left the party, Dominick was not one of them. He was also involved in the murder of another black man who was beaten and run over, the…

sympathized with the party was not something to be taken lightly. Even today, the word communism has a bit of a negative connotation to it. So why would anyone be a communist? And looking past the mass hysteria and fear, what did it really mean to be a communist in the 1950s? Looking through different first hand accounts of The Age of McCarthyism by Ellen Schrecker, it can be agreed upon universally that actual members of the communist joined because they thought their party would act for the…

untialmatley lead to the uprisings of the Nazi party and World War Two. The Outcomes of the war were different but both presented the German people with significant problems. The greatest amount of change came to Germany’s political structure with the abdication of the Kaiser. As William II fled Germany the SPD, Center and Liberal parties took over and turned Germany into a full-scale democracy. The SPD and Center part had been the opposition parties to the Second Reich. In 1919 a…

RAC concerts known as “Rock Against Communism” are hate based. They lure people in with cheap beer and “boot parties”(“Racist Skinheads”). The concerts give new opportunities for people to get together and make some more hate group connections. New technological advances made it easier for them to get together and plot their next objective. The Neo-Nazis are a lot…

groups have continued to pop up because they feel as though they are being repressed by the American government and society. They have been alienated from American society from the very beginning of American history. Africans were brought over to America as slaves for the European Americans. Life as a slave was brutal, and they had a very little chance of escaping their owner. Slaves were stripped of basic human rights, slaves could not carry firearms, testify in court, buy or sell anything,…

between different civilizations during this period. While the world was in chaos during the Great War, America practiced isolationism and refused to concern herself with the rest of the world’s problems. It only joined the war at a later time and so it did not experience the losses other countries suffered. The war left most of the world destroyed but not America. If anything, America gained a lot economically from the war. It became a major supplier of arms and food to Europe and…

As World War I ended, the United States was prepared to take on the role of a world leader because it was helping win a major overseas war and providing leadership in a war that wasn't being fought on or near its territory. President Wilson wanted the United States to provide leadership to the world. He believed that nations needed to protect peace by protecting the aims of the war and making the world a better place. President Woodrow Wilson's opinion was to stay neutral throughout the war, and…

of Spain since Christopher Columbus claimed it in 1492. Then Cuba with assistance from the U.S. fought for independence in the Spanish-American War. The war was between the United States and Spain for territories in the western Pacific and Latin America. The war ended Spanish colonial rule in Cuba, which gained independence from Spain and the U.S acquired control of Guam and Puerto Rico. Then in 1903 the U.S. Congress passed the Platt Amendment, which defined…