In the 1950’s the world had just come out of the greatest war in human history. In the aftermath of this war many countries turned to communism. It was against this threat of communism that the Australian government reacted in such a wide variety of ways. Although there were a wide variety of ways in which Australia reacted there were perhaps three that were the most prevalent and influential. Firstly Australia sent troops to fight in Korea to avoid and prevent the spread of communism and the start of the domino effect in South Asia. Secondly the Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies put forward the bill that would ban the communist party in Australia and make being communist illegal. Finally Australia also sought to establish treaties and relationships with other non-communist countries to provide Australia with an adequate defence, and also to help limit the spread of communism through. It was these strategies that made up Australia’s reaction to communism.…
Communism is a system where there is no private ownership of business or property and the country’s wealth gets shared among the population. Vladimir Lenin started the communist international which was an organisation with an aim of spreading communism throughout the world. Communism really was a threat to Australians in the 1950s, the events of the Korean War, different alliances being formed, the banning of the Communist party of Australia (CPA) and the Petrov affair all tell us that communism could spread to Australia.…
During the Cold War, there were two main sides of people’s opinions, for communism and against communism; people were also afraid of being killed or losing their jobs from being accused of being communists. Most people in America were against communism. In document four there are pictures of people protesting with signs that say “We are innocent” and “Burn all Reds”. The people with this signs were against the ideas of communism after the Rosenberg court case where people was accused of being communists and were put to death. This document is evidence that they were on the against the communist’s side and afraid of being killed from a false accusation.…
Throughout the reading there is much evidence that express the tension and sense of worry in American society during the 1950’s, especially during the scare of communism. The atmosphere was a sense of urgency and…
Historically, the treatment of African Americans was atrocious: unfair and dehumanising. Throughout the 1950s, this racial discrimination was noisily protested against and the recognition from governments allowed the African American voice to reach its zenith. The Cold War and the intense ideological disputes between the United States and the Soviet Union aided in the strengthened awareness towards this inequality and led to a slight advancement of the societal position for African Americans. However, with the improvement of the African American voice, coinciding with the war at hand, came governmental fear, resulting in public manipulation and…
This occurred in the second half of 20th century. Feeling incremented of Nationalism and Anti-communist fervor in the United States because of the Cold War. For Americans amid the Cold War, socialism was less perceived for being a monetary framework or an honest to goodness political alliance as it was an image of Soviet Union and accordingly a danger to the American lifestyle. In spite of the fact that the disintegration of the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 conveyed a conclusion to the Cold War, communism keeps on conveying in the United States into the 21st century. The Cold War kept going from generally the end of World War 2 until 1989, when tearing down of the Berlin Wall symbolized the end of the contention. Despite the reality that the Cold War never brought about any immediate military activity between the U.S. what’s more, the Soviet Union, the danger of communism in the U.S. was particularly noteworthy from 1945 until late…
When news broke out that communism was in America, the public was astonished and feared what communism in the U.S. government would do. Many politicians baffled on why they were even trying to run for office. What they did not see coming was the popularity that would follow communism in the future. The fear did not come from the Communist Party itself, but the obsession of a small group of people with power to stop the Red Scare that spread rapidly in the America in both the early 1900’s and 1940’s.…
In chapter 11 & 12, Painter discusses the rise of the Cold War between the United States and U.S.S.R. in the late 1940s and 1950s. This lead to mass anti-communist hysteria and social paranoia about anything that appeared to be supported by the Soviet Union. Ironically, during this time, one correct and important contradiction the Russians would point out was the problem of the U.S. calling itself a "democracy" when most African Americans were denied civil and human rights. For this writing prompt, I want you to discuss (in your own words) what effects Painter suggests the Cold War and anti-communism had specifically on Black civil rights and culture in the late 1940s and early 1950s.…
In addition this topic is highly relevant to that is happening in the news today with a percentage of the nation not trusting the local, national government or those in political power. Those who were in high political offices at the time, had to speak on key issues like such and lead their respective cities and states through a political movement and a war in another part of the county. In this research paper I plan to find primary source documents and a few scholarly articles that will help me to understand what was happening at this crucial time in history. The Civil Rights movement was largely recognized in the south and that is where I intended to focus on. I also will be coving the years of approximately 1954 to 1970,as this seems to be the height of both the Cold War and the Civil rights movement in the United…
It was November 18, 1918, the day WWI had officially ended. The last cry of help had been heard and peace was supposedly coming to the United States or it had seemed. An ideological war which prompted mass paranoia had caused, among many other things, what would be known as the Red Scare (****). The Red Scare was the label given to the actions of legislation, the race riots, and the hatred and persecution of "subversives" and conscientious objectors during that period of time. The purpose of this research is to explore the threat that plagued the United States in its’ time of great panic and anxiety, during the “first” Red Scare which lasted between 1919 to 1921. This powerful threat turned out to be Communism and it was greatly feared by almost every U.S. citizen. Communism is “system of social and economic organization in which property is owned by the state group, to be shared in common or to be disturbed among members of the community equally or in proportion to their respective needs. In 1919, no more than one-tenth of the adult American population belonged to the newly formed communist movement, and even this small percentage were greatly persecuted.…
(1-2) Notice that there's nothing about communism in these opening lines. That's because there doesn't need to be. In 1947 the growing pressure of communism is on everyone’s mind and the spread across…
Vladimir Lenin’s own thirst for knowledge was a catalyst towards him becoming a professional revolutionary. According to one investigator of his youth,…
American society during the decade of the 1950s served as somewhat of a “kickstarter” for how the U.S. as a nation became what it is today. This decade’s society is about the massive changes that were made to the country and how its citizens operated together. Major events took place in this society and changed things that can still be seen today, such as transportation, rights for all citizens, and the population expansion to even the outermost areas of the nation. Influential American figures that fueled these changes in 1950s society include Rosa Parks, who contributed to the growing presence of civil rights along with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, whose efforts provided a prospering society…
Communism and fascism are at the opposite ends of the totalitarian spectrum. Their major differences lie in their economic and social characteristics, but they do share many similarities in the political aspect. Soviet communism and German fascism are, in fact, very unlike each other, but they affected the people of the Soviet Union and Germany in many similar ways.…
Analyse one or two items from The Left Review, situating these texts in relation to the journal’s broader political and cultural concerns.…