Anti-communism

has been a country. However, during the mid 1900s, communism was the biggest threat to America, it lead to a complete revolution and the subsequent destruction of the American way of life. In the 1940’s following the end of World War II, America had developed a new common enemy. The hysteria over communism in American became known as the Red Scare. As the Red Scare intensified more people of political power began to promote the scare of communism such as Joseph Macarthy and J. Edgar Hoover. Joseph

ideology of communism was to create a perfect society using socialism as a stepping stone. However. Political upheaval and economic disaster were key to its demise. Civilian uprising created a totalitarian society that set forth a downward spiral for the destruction of communism in Russia. My research topic has a significant role in our history, Karl Marx desired to create a utopian society where socialism played a divisive role. My topic took on many forms at the beginning. What if communism had not

Why Karl Marx Thought Communism was the Ideal Political Party Karl Marx was brought up in a Jewish community and society in his early years. His father was a lawyer, although he was descended from a long line of rabbis. As opportunities for Jews decreased Karl Marx's father, Herschel, decided to convert from Jewish to Lutheranism, which was the Prussian states religion. The Marx family was very liberal and often held intellectual conversations and was introduced to a lot

order to halt the spread of communism, the ruling political party of the Soviet Union. The American overt and covert actions of overthrowing and replacing foreign governments in Iran, Guatemala, and Afghanistan have come with immediate and long-term effects, which have weakened American security, created more foreign enemies, and established Anti-Americanism. One instance of American-controlled regime was the overthrow of democratically

wanted a strong leader to get them out of the Great Depression. The leaders want total control over the country and people and strong military and economy. There are two types of totalitarianism; fascism and communism. Fascism is when the nation is more important than the individual and communism is when there is no social classes or private property. iiiiiiii) Harry Pollitt was a British Communist who served as the head of the tade union department of the Communist Party of Great Britain and

and greed. Communism has promised this utopian society and since as early as 19005, Russia has taken steps towards its direction. As a means to change the economic and political structures, a revolution was started. However, years went by and Russia only saw the significant decrease of Soviet citizens caused by forced famine and liquidation. The failure of the communist movement can be seen in its flaws of its ideology. Arthur Koestler depicts and explains the fundamental flaw of communism, in his work

Book, Killing Hope, Blum claims that the U.S. backed a CIA overthrow of the Guatemalan Government in 1954.. Blum challenges that the motivation for the coup was not based on a true belief that Guatemala’s President Jacobo Arbenz was leaning towards communism, and alludes to the the idea that the true motivation for the Coup was the threat to economic gains to The United Fruit Company. Research of the Coup shows that Blum is correct in that the United States was indeed behind the overthrow of Arbenz.

taken full control of China. Many arguments have a firm belief that the CCP had the people in fear. They used different and certainly a couple extreme methods. They used the Laogai which seemed to be humane in theory but wasn’t in practice, the 3 and 5 Anti Movements; which targeted the capitalist middle class and the use of Registration in order for the people to obtain accommodation and work. Nonetheless there are arguments which showed that the CCP wasn’t completely keeping the country in fear to control

allowed for multi-party elections, with a variety of political parties and candidates for the voters to choose between. America, in the lead up to the Cold War, was under the impression that Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, was trying to spread Communism worldwide. This was because of Stalin?s attempt to set up pro-communist systems elsewhere. Soviet forces ?liberated? the Eastern European countries from Nazi control as World War II neared its end, but at the war?s end Stalin refused to remove

possible coup with the United States (Miller, Talea). The CIA desperately searched for any ties between the USSR and Arbenz, but could not find anything. The CIA in Guatemala reported a list with names of communists that they wanted to eliminate when an anti-communist coup was taken place (Document 2), and the killings