1A Contestant - Elliott Morris The Red‚ White‚ and Blue Scare “American’s have always evinced some distrust of government‚ but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented” – Eric Alterman circa 1960. When Eric Alterman so boldly said this in 1960‚ he was affirming his stature in many areas to his fellow Americans. He was establishing himself as a societal whistleblower‚ a governmental troublemaker‚ and a political activist – all with one sentence. It is also
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The Lasting Social Impact of The Red Scare on American Society Even thought thee ideals and societal expectations are vastly different from the 1940’s and 50’s to now‚ much has stayed the same. Sure schools no longer play the olde timey “wht to do when a nuclear blast is immenant” and then tell the bored audience to duck and cover under a desk‚ as if that will provide ample protection from nuclear fallout. Now people are marginally less racist and misoginist but there are some places in th worls
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Cold war containment and the red scare As the strength of the Soviet Union grew and the fear of its potential capabilities mounted in the 1950’s‚ coupled with the fear of communism as a whole in the US reaching an unprecedented point‚ the effects on the social development of the US as a result of the red scare and growth of communism showed in several ways. As a result of the Red Scare that developed in the 1950’s‚ American politicians often held strong concern for soviet espionage and as a result
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Second Red Scare Essay In the years following World War II‚ the United States and the Soviet Union entered upon the brink of the Cold War‚ which lasted from the late 1940s into the early 1950s. During this time‚ the United States broke into hysteria over supposed threats of communist in the country‚ thus brining forth the second red scare. After rising to political power‚ Republican Senator Joseph P. McCarthy was not only looked upon as an enduring symbol of the red scare brining forth the term known
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living in the 1940’s through 1950’s‚ this was called the Communist Red Scare. Bobbie Ann Mason the author makes the characters in the story be affected by Red Scare to a point that the main character blamed the communist for her mother’s miss carriage. In the short story “DETROIT SKYLINE‚ 1949” by Bobbie Ann Mason reflects those events of paranoia that happened in the 1940s through 1950s of the Communist Red Scare. The Communist Red Scare was defined as “the fear that communist both outside and inside
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The Crucible In Relation To The Red Scare. During the 1940’s and 1950’s there was mass hysteria that broke out in the United States. The “Red Scare” was a large scale panic across the United States Of America. This was during the cold war‚ at this time the U.S. was worried about communists and espionage due to that we had caught Russian spies across the U.S. “The Crucible” has a similar plot line to the “Red scare”‚ due to how mass hysteria is spread so quickly over false accusations. In “The Crucible”
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McCarthyism Accusation happens everywhere in this world‚ true or false. People tend to censure others because of hatred or to take revenge from personal malice. However‚ no arraignments had ever affected as much people as the McCarthyism period in the 1940s and 1950s. Senator Joseph McCarthy was the leader of the Communist findings that became extreme until it was given the word ‘McCarthyism’. Results from his denunciation brought back another Red Scare or known as the Second Red Scare to the
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Nutella: The Next Red Scare? Communism is a very dangerous thing. It spread like wildfire in the 1920s and 1950s after each world war respectively. But today‚ I am here to inform you about a new kind of Communism. It is the month of May‚ in the year 2014‚ and the Cold War has been over for nearly 3 decades now‚ but communism is still a very real thing‚ that has taken on a brand new form. This isn’t exactly a factual description of communism‚ it’s more along the lines of things that I think are
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all kinds of misdemeanors. This dread of communism became identified as the Red Scare. The Americans believed that it was an attempt by the Soviet
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McCarthyism was very popular among American citizens after the Second World War. Despite the fact that it was intended to be helped by the fears and suspicions of the American people‚ it only lasted for a short period of time. McCarthyism appealed to the citizens of the United States very easily due to the previous “red scare” and other communist fears. During the Second World War‚ their fears became even more severe because of the powers that the communist nations had demonstrated. The appeal of
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