In 1920, during the height of the Red Scare, a shoemaker, Nicola Sacco (1891-1927), and a fish peddler, Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888-1927), were accused of robbing and murdering the paymaster and guard of a shoe company in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Known as anarchists and draft evaders, the accused men faced a hostile judge and a public convinced of their guilt. Despite Sacco 's corroborated testimony that he was at the Italian consulate in Boston at the time of the murder, the two were found
European war. This resulted them to go against all things foreign, which included racial political ideas and immigrants. The country had to face many decisions made by communists, which created the Red Scare. The Red Scare was a spread of the fear of communism. One of the most important cases involving the Red Scare was the Sacco and Vanzetti case. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who were Italian, atheists, conscientious objectors, and radicals, were both accused of the murder of a paymaster and
The end of World War Two saw Russia and the United States as world powers, each with totally different views on how the new world should be governed.The Cold War was a fight between Communism and Capitalism; only one method could prevail. Communism, was the notion that through a class war all would become equal, all property owned publicly and each person paid equally. On the opposite end of the spectrum lay Capitalism where there is an economic and political system of a country’s trade and industry
Communism is the idea that everyone in a country is equal, gets equal pay, and everyone shares everything equally. While it sounds really good in theory, it fails in real life because it does not provide incentive such as a capitalistic system might do. It also the exact opposite of capitalism in many ways and so, the U.S government, and the U.S population, was against communism. While the anti-communist view waned in the mid 1930s, the U.S was generally against communism throughout the 1920s and
The success of communism had an immense impact on the world, especially in Western countries. The United States considered communism to be a real threat to democracy. Historically, critics point out that most communistic societies have faced periods of famine, and nearly all severely repress their citizens. Censorship is rampant, and any political opposition is strictly stopped. Anti-communists also argue that communism essentially causes a worse form of the class struggle in capitalist societies
McCarthy Claims Communist Infiltration This essay believes that in the early years of anti-communism surge Senator Joseph McCarthy had a big play in prosecuting communism. Joseph McCarthy indeed greatly helped the cause of anti-communism in the U.S. by his vigorous values. His accusations, though hardly backed by real evidence, increase the idea of anti-communism very fast in the United States. He create "McCarthyism." his accusations in the government or people that was related in politics led him
POSITIVE: The coup of 1953 was a necessary action in order to prevent the spread of Communism in Iran. At the time Mossadegh was attempting to nationalize the oil reserves, Soviet Russia placed it’s eyes on the weak country. Mossadegh was so set on preventing Western Ideas as well as influence from taking place in Iran that he was blindsided by the harmful intentions of the Soviet Union. James Ciment (2007), author of The Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy published by Charles Scribner’s Sons
” This was fueled by the idea that Communism was very harmful and could destroy a society. Many people were scared by the idea of communism, considering people were not able to own land, the government controls the economy, and equally distributed wealth among all people. These ideas were very freighting to wealthy Americans, influential politicians, and business leaders because they were worried about loosing their wealth and status. Another reason why communism was such a scary threat is because
identifies America’s disposition over the subject of communism during the Cold War era. Historian Stephen J. Whitfield writes his secondary source entitled, “The Culture of the Cold War” which presents a detailed analysis pertaining to the lives of Americans on both sides of the political spectrum of anti-communism during the 1950s in United States. Questions arise that carry significance to cultural and social growth during the period: How was communism threatening the
After World War Two, the United States government was very apprehensive about the spread of communism(Nash 592). The post war landscape saw the failing of the colonial powers with many former colonies achieving independence. Communism or socialism appealed to some of these countries and the U.S. worried that communism would spread to neighboring countries and viewed this expansion as a threat to democracy. America responded to this threat of expansion with the policy of containment. A government