Yale Political Union

For average Americans during the early postwar era, the shadow of the Soviet Union and communism loomed as a threat to their way of life, causing paranoia over the threat of communist infiltration, which gave rise to the “Red Scare”. This mass hysteria led Americans to become fearful of communist agents attempting to infiltrate their society, and to undermine it from within. Studies of this era of US culture tend to focus on McCarthyism, the term used to describe the mass communist “witch hunt”…

ultimate solutions many employees seek when morale is low and management is failing to resolve or improve the matter is labor unions. If employees believe they are not getting what they need from their employer, they often turn to labor unions in hopes of reaching some sort of rightful treatment. When things have reached an all-time low with morale employees may feel that labor unions can improve the situation. There are several companies that have prevented becoming unionized, and has a…

military power, and that Germany didn’t need to view the Soviet Union as a serious military or economic threat. Between 1937 and 1938 around seven million Soviet citizens were arrested, one million were executed, two million died in camps, and another one million were imprisoned. Taking the Purge and the Great Terror as a whole, roughly eight million people were in camps by the end of 1938. Stalin’s paranoia led him to set the Soviet Union on fire and as a result the Red Army fared poorly in…

persuasion, which is when the state persuades it’s ideology and culture for other to accept them and apply them as norms in their country, to inherently have a fundamental shift in policy and government. Many states that were originally part of the Soviet Union had felt constrained under the communist system and may have opted to adopt the western/American norms in their cultures to seek freedom and further their power in the world. Given the United…

The history of the Berlin Wall was ignited by World War II. Germany plotted an attack on Poland, yet was intimidated by the fact that the Soviet Union might interfere. So, before raiding Poland, Hitler made sure to sign a non-aggression pact with the U.S.S.R. This pact secretly stated that Poland should be divided between Germany and the Soviet Union, with Germany receiving the western third, while the Soviets gained control of the remaining two-thirds. Germany began their attacks on Poland on…

In 1862 Morrill Act was passed by congress in an attempt to keep polygamy from altering or hindering the very fabric of American Democracy (Abrams, 2015). That act was put in place because Mormons and Chinese immigrant had a different view that was hostile to the growing democracy and federalism implied by congress that perpetuated certain family norms not to be polygamous (Abrams, 2015). In September 24, 1890, the Church of Latter Day Saints bowed to the government and withdrew from the…

This provoked Stalin, so he began to eliminate any political or nonpolitical enemy he felt necessary. In order to eliminate these people he declared a series of Show trials punished mainly by Death or Imprisonment. There were three large show trials and many other smaller closed trials. These took place in…

Totalitarianism is an extremely controversial political theory. Totalitarian states are places in which the government or state has total control over all regions of private and public life. This type of government began to surface in Europe and in parts of Asia during the end of World War I, and continued to be the predominant political theory for the duration of World War II, and even lasted years after the end of the Second World War. Reasons for the use of totalitarian regimes tend to differ…

During the period 1855 – 1956 Russia was involved in many major wars, all of which played an important role in its development. With the exception of the Second World War many of the wars Russia was involved led to defeats for them and these defeats exposed the weakness of the Tsar or government in charge. War outlined the flaws in the presiding system and highlighted Russia’s faults, and thus placed a spotlight upon the shortcomings of the Russian leadership. Such pressure prompted the Tsars…

anywhere. The different political parties all have different thoughts on the Immigrants. Racism has many people thinking on what will happen in the future of America. What will Racism be like in the United States? People might think what do politicians do to help the notoriety of the immigrants trying to get into the United States? Well facts collected says, That many politicians are all for immigration, but they are never mentioned in their campaigns. We all know different political parties…