Dalton Trumbo: The Struggle Between Communism And Capitalism

Hollywood writer Dalton Trumbo was blacklisted after being convicted for Contempt of Congress. Trumbo, a member of the communist party, was put on trial for being communist which resulted in the creation of the blacklist. After years of working on screenplays under pseudonyms, Dalton had finally managed to beat the blacklist. Trumbo had also successfully paved the way for an end to the red scare and an end to anti-communism in the United States.
After the end of the Second World War in 1945 another war emerged, this war was the cold war. The cold war was a power struggle between Communism and Capitalism. Capitalist Americans were terrified of communists and the chance of being hurled into a nuclear war. The American fear of communism, “the red scare”, caused many citizens to become paranoid. This paranoia lead many Americans into
Trumbo worked relentlessly through the blacklist, he refused to give up on his passion for writing. He also was very open about his beliefs of communism, which lead to his hearing, but also showed that Trumbo wasn’t afraid to stand up for his communist beliefs. If it wasn’t for Trumbo’s attitude and drive, the blacklist could’ve lasted until the end of the cold war in 1991. Trumbo being able to work while he was blacklisted and still be out on his communist beliefs took away the blacklist’s credibility, and made many Americans stop to think about the red scare’s credibility.
The blacklist purely was a manifestation for the red scare. The attitudes about the red scare towards the end of the 1950s allowed for the end of the blacklist. Trumbo discrediting and ending the blacklist allowed for the end of the red scare. The blacklist and red scare co-existed throughout the cold war, but one couldn’t exist without the other. Trumbo sparked a discussion about the red scare after he confessed to writing screenplays while blacklisted, was it all worth