Socialist state

against the Japanese during World War II. The South was led by a non-communist regime and was helped by the United States. When President Kennedy was assassinated Lyndon Johnson inherited the problem of the Vietnam War. Like the three presidents before him, He was determined to prevent North Vietnamese Communists from taking over the government of South Vietnam. Johnson believed United States security relied on containing on spreading communism. Johnson felt it was a necessity to increase troops…

capitalists.” (Scott, p.92) This excerpt is basically saying all non-socialists states are terrible, since their agenda will only benefit the bourgeoisie. Capitalism is heavily criticized for having politics driven by economics, and that greed by the bourgeoisie is why there are wars. Instead of fighting for territory or security, wars are fought in order to bring in profit for the bourgeoisie. Thus the best type of state would be a socialist one, where the government controls the economy and…

The Cold War began after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Cold War was a result of two major world powers, the United States and Russia (USSR), displaying a show of force with the nuclear weapons tests each were conducting. The Franck Committee, in 1945, met to persuade the American public into agreeing nuclear warfare could be disastrous. The USSR was a previous American ally, during WWII, and a superpower that would not be outdone or relinquish control-though they signed a peace…

The Red Scare appeared directly subsequent to the closing of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution that took place in Russia. These occurrences bolstered fear of communism, socialism, and anarchism while depleting a major component of the United States economy. The widespread trepidation settled in the hearts of many Americans. Many factors in the Red Scare would result in a massive decrease in labor leading to higher wages, violation of civil rights and decreased profits. The Red Scare…

The period from 1945 to 1991 is most commonly known as the “Cold War”. This was a time of fear and suspense. The arms race drove both the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) to do drastic things to keep up with each other’s weapons. The cold war negatively affected the U.S.A., the U.S.S.R., and the world by taking money to spend on arms, giving some children ptsd, and by degrading and endangering the lives of many people. The cold war negatively affected the U.S.A…

The Crucible was written in 1952 by Arthur Miller. Five years before the book was written the Cold War has begun. The state of the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union was dreadful. This is because both of these nations had different ideas on how to run their countries. The United States did not like the idea of government having total control over their own citizens and did not like the idea of having the Soviet Union spreading communism around the world. In communist…

South Vietnam, its main ally, pitted long and costly conflict, the communist regime, known as the Confederate States. After the war power-up of the communist Vietnam party in Ho Chi Minh City and northern Vietnam (this extends to the middle of this conflict back to the 1940's in the area but) started in 1954 and continued two world superpowers between the intense Cold War Background: United States and the Soviet Union. More than 3,000,000 (Including 58,000 Americans) died in the Vietnam War;…

Communism went along with the socialist movement. The socialist movement was the economic system that made the country free with no division. That meant everyone was treated 100 percent equally, so everyone had to pay the same taxes and there were no social classes. Capitalist countries went along…

He used his position to push his extremist views to the citizens of Germany. By 1934, Hitler and the Nazi Socialist German Workers’ Party had complete control of the government after arresting and assassinating all other high ranking government officials. Hitler used this power to enforce laws he set out and to shut down any naysayers and opposing views. Hitler…

capitalistic United States. During this time many governments had fallen into turmoil due to the events from World War II. The world was scared that any international body could cause such disaster again. At the end of the war you war soon left with two options communist or not. With the United States and Russia emerging as the two largest international powers, each one had very different ideologies and the Cold War soon broke out. However the Cold War did not just impact the United States and…