Wednesday, May 6, 2020

The End Of World War Two And The United States - 1411 Words

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 are controlled by private owners for profit; not the state. One way that America sought to protect and hopefully impede Soviet Russia was through its foreign policies. The major foreign policy act that the U.S had in place during the Cold War,†¦show more content†¦He proclaimed having 205 cards of official Communist party members and supporters who just so happen to work in government where they can influence our policies. Naturally the public was curious and afraid. Upon closer inspection it was found that the numbers were not so high but still what if all of McCarthy’s other allegations were true? This is where hysteria comes in, most people were scared that the government is just full of traitors and nothing was private. That’s when the House Un-American Activities Committee turned its attention towards the government and extirpating subversion in the states.. Due to his allegations, the reality of how far communism had spread was blurred and anti-communist pushed for radical policies against communism to ensure that Fifth-Columnists were not planted in the government. Although some critics of McCarthy tried to prove his allegations false, the conviction of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg who were guilty of espionage just and the convicted perjury of Alger Hiss made the public listen to him more. It seemed to American civilians that all over the world Communism was taking over and that a nuclear holocaust was in the way. This was aroused by the fact that Russia exploded its first atomic bomb in 1949, that same year China (the world’s biggest population) fell to Communism. It seemed like half of Europe was under

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.