The United States And Communist Russia

Congress also created the House on Un-American Activities Committee in 1947, the goal of HUAC was to investigate Hollywood for communism and communist propaganda being broadcasted to the American public. They hauled movie stars, screenwriters, directors, up and interviewed them to the thrill of the national press corps, they pressed them to implicate others in Hollywood and name names. Ten of those interviewed refused based on the unconstitutional nature of and violation of the First Amendment for this many of them were blacklisted from Hollywood. Joseph McCarthy despite his renown for anticommunism, he was not part of the HUAC. Later he held his own committees based on his secrete list of 205 plus names that were communists or communist sympathizers in the US government. Communism was not and has never been a major threat in the United States. It was not in the 1950’s it is not now. Anyone that brings up red scare is doing so trying to invoke fear to distract you from whatever domestic problems actually need confronting. The biggest reason that can be said was that the American Communist Party was extremely tiny and the fact that we have a two party system effectively neuters any third party from gaining real power either through legal or illegal

Many Americans were afraid of Communist ideals and the common belief was that it was a menace to (western) civilisation. The fear was so great that the American government set up a House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in order to defend the American from Communist beliefs. Headed by Senator Joe McCarthy, HUAC trials took place against famous movie stars as well as ordinary Americans such as Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Communist ideals were so feared that it was possible to be deported from the country, however a casual trip to the penitentiary was the usual punishment. Rose introduces this theme in his play with the defendant. The accused is a 16 year old male who comes from a slum background (Rose is possibly leading the reader to believe that the defendant is of African American or Hispanic decent), spent time in a reform school, and has a criminal record including mugging and assault with a knife. It is clear from the outset of the deliberation that verdict is going to be embedded with pre-conceived notions and prejudiced ideals. An example of this is Juror 4, who

The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was created to determine and seek out pro-communist activities. In this era, it is important to note that pro-communist was synonymous with anti-american. They singled out groups such as the American Communist Party, left-wing organizations, and immigrants. They even started to investigate those in Hollywood, which divided the community. It can be compared to the Salem Witch Trials; people created lists of guilty people and

The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) was created in 1938. They were focused on investigating and putting an end to Communists and Communist supporters in the American

I did not know that my grandmother was concealing her experience as a Korean War refugee behind her disarming smiles and caring personality. To me, who spent more than ten years of my childhood with my grandmother rather than my parents, she seemed like a person who has been wearing her big smile since her birth. Consequently, I have never guessed that my grandmother would have such tragic childhood as a war refugee. My grandmother also barely talked about the Korean War, when I was living with her, so I had to make sure multiple times that she was born before the Korean War before the interview and found out that she was only 9-year-old when the Korean war had occurred.

Due to the onset of the Cold War and the early 1960s, the popular and political climate in the United States changed. The relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States was directed by ideological, political and technological factors. The rivalry between the two powers rooted from their contrasting ideological principles since the United States was a democratic republic where the people believed that every citizen had equal representation in the government and the Soviet Union was a communist nation. The US embodied the principles of a democratic nation believing in the ideals of "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness" as well as having an economy that was based on capitalism. In contrast to the ideology of the US, the Soviet Union fell under communist rule during the Russian Revolution of 1917, which was based on the idea that all assets should be owned by the government and then divided among the citizens of the nation. The Soviet Union took communism a step further as the many of the leaders were totalitarian during the 20th century, meaning that "all power was in the hands of the ruler". In 1946, Churchill declared the separation between the east and west by saying that an iron curtain had descended through the middle of Europe (Churchill Delivers Iron Curtain Speech 1). Even though the Soviets and the US fought together in WWII, the eastern communistic ideology had clashed with western democratic principles. Furthermore, the two powers were in a nuclear

Since the end of World War II, long before the earliest events of the Heroes of Catholic Education Series, a strange set of occurrences began to manifest itself as the United States and Soviet Union faced each other as rivals in the subsequent Cold War. The Anomaly Phenomenon, a term denoting the appearance of peculiar formations that defy scientific explanation, made its first appearance in the small period of relative peace-shortly after World War II, but before the Cold War and the formation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Most people are unaware of it, sometimes out of ignorance and other times because of government agencies seeking to prevent it from creating unnecessary civil disorder, leaving only a few people who are aware of it.

In the postwar united states, there was a huge anti communist sentiment caused by a fear of russian domination. Because of this, censorship became a part of life. Many politicians were accused of communist activities by one senator Joseph McCarthy and subsequently lost their positions. Organizations such as HUAC (House of Un-american Activities Committee) were responsible for the investigation of citizens who were accused of being involved in subversive activities.

The United States and the Soviet Union had fought together as allies against Nazi Germany during World War II. When the war had ended, the Soviet Union had maintained a large presence in much of Eastern and Central Europe. Communist governments, allied with the Soviet Union, were soon established within this region. Winston Churchill, who had served as British Prime Minister during World War II, had warned that an “iron curtain” divided Western and Eastern Europe. He was fearful communism would spread through war-torn Europe. The United States and the Soviet Union were now engaged in a new period of conflict, later known as the Cold War. The United States had provided assistance to Europe in an effort to contain Soviet

Emerging as the victors of the Second World War, the Soviet Union and the United States became the most notorious superpowers in modern world history. They dominated the globe economically, politically, and militarily. Although the USSR and the United States worked together to defeat Nazism and Japanese Imperialism in the 1930s and 1940s, they were weary of each other. For example, the USSR employed a communist, government controlled economy, and arguably an authoritarian system of government, meanwhile the United States had a free-market capitalistic democracy. Having two world powers with opposing political and economic systems caused major international complications.

Following World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union sprung into what is now called the Cold War, and subsequently the Space Race. This was a time period where our country’s debt more than quadrupled, there was a constant fear of Nuclear War, and relations with another world superpower and former ally were rendered nearly irreparable. National Security and pride faltered initially, but from what seemed like it could have been the end of the capitalist world as we knew it, something incredible happened: we made it to the moon. After countless losses in many different categories of the Space Race to the USSR, the United States shifted its focus to the more long term goal of landing the first manned spacecraft on the moon.

During the mid-1940s, America was weary of the future. Franklin D. Roosevelt had just died and so had World War II. Truman was beginning his term as president and so came the Cold War with Russia. Russia, a communist country, was building nuclear weapons and we were convinced they were to come down on us at any moment. The U.S. did not trust Russia in the least bit. Russia had been working on nuclear weapons as well as spreading communism to China. The term “duck and cover” became an American staple for schools. The fear of communism in America was a t an all-time high. Many people became sensitive to anything even remotely related to being anti-American or –democracy. In May 17, 1938, The Dies Committee (later renamed the House on Un-American Activities Committee, or HUAC) was founded by Texas Democrat was founded to combat underground anti-American sentiments.

At the end of the World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged from the war as the world’s two leading superpowers. In the post war world, the U.S. and the Soviet Union both engaged in a Cold War aiming to have the most influence around the globe through the spread of their respective ideologies (communism and capitalism) and political systems (representative democracy and socialism). One particular place where this struggle for influence was seen was Latin America, specifically Chile, which faced the possibility of a democratically elected Marxist president by the name of Salvador Allende. The U.S. assumed that Allende, having communist ideals, would install a totalitarian government in Chile similar to that of Stalin’s regime if he was to be elected into office. The U.S also viewed Allende as a threat to U.S national security because his presidency in Chile could create a “domino effect,” whereby the fall of one Latin American country to communism would lead to the fall of countries elsewhere in the Americas, which was a major threat to the United States considering its proximity to Chile and other Latin American countries. Thus, the United States sent its CIA to Chile in order to prevent Allende’s ascendancy to the presidential seat in Chile by any means necessary, even if those means contradicted U.S principles such as the right of a free press, constitutionality, free elections, and peace.

Before the conflict between the United States and Cuba, the two countries were strongly connected in terms of trading, with the US purchasing 87% of Cuba’s exports (CITE). However, once Fidel Castro came to power in Janurary 1959 after successfully overpowering President Batista and established Cuba as a communist state, relations became strained. In the following year, $1.8 billion US assets in Cuba were taken by Castro and the newly Communist state created close ties with the Soviet Union (CITE 2). In the year of 1963, travel and financial transactions with Cuba were both prohibited. Traverse from the United States to Cuba was made illegal on February 8, 1963 and the Cuban Assets Control Regulations, or CACR, issued economic sanctions prohibiting financial transactions with Cuba in July of that same year (CITE 2). In the year of 1977, President Jimmy Carter attempted to repair the relationship between countries by opening a “US Interests Section” in replacement of the previously closed US Embassy in Havana. Carter also began talks with Cuba.

Joseph McCarthy, being a senator, had the right of subpoena (appear and testify in court or other legal proceeding, people are under a legal obligation to do so). If a person refuses, he could be sent to jail. The individuals suspected being the sympathizes of communism were often listed in the newspaper, and the assumption was that if McCarthy calls on a specific person, he must be hiding something. Many people lost their jobs. McCarthy assured that he had a list of 206 people who are working for the American governments and are still sympathizers of communist ideology. His report was not updated, and the information was inaccurate. His accusations became ridiculous after he accused to rank generals. He was silenced by his