Propagand Mccarthyism During The Cold War

Propaganda: McCarthyism At a time of tension between two superpowers after the Second World War, also known as the Cold War, America brought its own propaganda to counter that of the Soviet Union. Through McCarthyism politicians imposed panic in the minds of Americans of communist control within the US. Its effects inhibited Americas Social, political, and diplomatic conflict during the Cold War era. The anti-communist propaganda in long run did not help America in terms of being socially progressive. Anti- communism in America existed before at the time of the First World War when communism became politically significant. Now this time right after the conclusion of the Second World War the concern of the growth of the influence of communism
At his point finding the communists within the population is a witch hunt. It for the people would do not want much trouble in being active with their beliefs. Getting rid of any antagonizing point of view in politics homogenizes the overall consciousness of the government, further polarizing the social norm of what is accepted talk about openly because the idea of communism is a threat to the American way of life. A valid reason for this order is national security, the government was just being careful. Nevertheless is hypocritical by part of the U.S. government to persecute people with different ideology and still claim to defend the
and the U.S.S.R. differed and this resulted in competing forms growth. Capitalism is the economic and political system America holds where property and industry is owned privately to use for gain in profit. In the other side is the Communist ideology where everything is owned by the state and the goods will be shared among everyone. Prosperity has come to the U.S. because of capitalism and it’s a virtue of the nation to incite people to work hard for a successful life by finding a way to get wealthy, however the huge amount of consumerism U.S. has gone through in the rest of the century exploits straining resources and sweatshop workers. This is a key attribute of capitalism, one side of the bargain has to lose in order to for there to be profits. Since America is a militaristic and economic power it sets the deals always to their favor. In a form of propaganda America tried to sway foreign nations to the western economy by giving a “glimpse of the good life (Winkler), compared to the bland products of communism, products from America where more varied due the nature of competition in capitalism. Through this from of diplomatic propaganda it made other countries of the world choose a side in the Cold War. The American image has served internationally as are from to rally countries to the capitalistic side. This served nothing to keep the tension just between Russia and America, the world has become more of a giant chessboard for the countries. With