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    Policy Of Containment

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    the U.S policy of containment. The U.S. policy of containment was created to help prevent the spread of communism, which Stalin was trying to do. One reason this policy was needed was due to the Russians' fears of invasion. Also, the Soviets believed that capitalism was evil and saw Western democracies as a threat. In their attempt to demolish capitalism, the Soviets supported communist and anti-Western movements, had censorship on Western ideas, and banned some Western goods. To combat them, the

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    Communism could be an intriguing theory, especially to a poor developing country. A society where not one person is superior to another, where everyone shares products of their labor, and where the government provides for their people by providing employment and medical care for all. However, the political leaders are always better than the people and there is no way of improvement and growth economically, politically and socially. After WWII and the success of the USSR conquering Nazi Germany with

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    within those societies. The mystified (metaphysical) nature of the conflict served both sides: those who wanted to defend the status quo (the moral, political, and economic arrangements that predominated) in the "Western" nations were able to promote anti-communist attitudes and actions by depicting the other side as opponents of freedom, goodness, democracy, and light; while those who supported the goals of the Comintern could rally greater support for overturning the status quo by making use of the

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    Communism is good for the economy, but it bad for people who want their own decision. Communism doesn’t valve creativity, you barely can have rights and indifference toward the environment. Russia justify a massive buildup of U.S military forces, a situation that kerman deplored as wasteful and counterproductive. The fear of communism form the United States a manifestation of political anxiety over the infiltration of international influences. Some examples of this was the red scare after WWI, and

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    later communism overcame Russia in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. 50 years later Cuba, North Korea, and China also adopted communism for their form of government. Although each of countries has slightly different reasons why a communist revolution was successful, all have something in common. Communist revolutions succeeded in developing third world countries that were striving for national independence and social change. In Karl Marx’s book, The Communist Manifesto, he defines communism as a

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    Truman became known as the Truman Doctrine. In this speech Truman promised to help any country that was threatened by a communist take-over. Truman's policy of stopping the spread of Communism became known as CONTAINMENT. He started straight away by sending money and equipment to help anti-Communist forces in a CIVIL WAR in Greece. The Cold War, was a post-1945 struggle between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Direct military conflict

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    Winston Churchill once remarked that “democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried”. In agreement with his statement, this paper will examine the problems of democratic governments using specific examples, and compare it to the failure of fascist governments in Nazi Germany and Italy and communist governments in the Soviet Union and China. Theoretically, democracy is a stable form of government where power is in the hands of the people. In a democracy, people

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    of its historic creation, imposing presence, and major-league influence in global politics until its ultimate demise in 1991. Like the political scenario, world literature was also changing its face during mid- twentieth century, and the issue of communism had become one of the prominent subjects in the writings of that time. Animal Farm, a novella written by a popular 20th century English writer George Orwell, is both an allegory and satire of the “socialist” state of Soviet Union. His own experience

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    within the people which lead to riots. The history of the Soviet Union greatly contributed to this unjustified fear. During the nineteenth century, Karl Marx, a revolutionary socialist, wrote the “Communist Manifesto” which presented the idea of Communism. In this political ideal, property is publicly owned and workers are paid to extent of their abilities and needs. Nowhere does the theory state dictatorship or any type of totalitarian government. This revolutionary speculation remains as Russia’s

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    Communism In The 1950's

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    influences in their homeland. In this era, American democracy and Russian communism were at odds. America runs on democracy which allows the people to exercise their “freedom” (Anti Communist Propaganda). In the American society, communism is a system of international control and conformity and the act of the government taking complete control over the citizens’ freedom and property (Eisenhower). Overall the act of communism opposed the American practices of democracy and although America and Russia

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