During the depression, thousands of American citizens joined the communist party for economic answers. By the end of World War II, most had withdrawn, though some were still communist party members. ... This committee was supposed to prevent and stop communist acts and acts against Americans. ... People started to fear and hate everyone that was charged with having communistic ties. ... This one event shows how the nation was split on deciding the fate of convicted communists (D4). ...

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The Similiarities Between The 1690's Salem Witch Hunts and the 1950's Communist Scare. ... About 160 years later the country experiences similar events in the 1950's Communist Scare. ... During the 1950's HUAC Hearings people were afraid of being bombed by communists, and being accused of having dealing with the communist party. President Truman began to fire government employees under the suspicion that they may have been communists. ... During the HUAC Hearings those who were found guilty of being part of, or having dealings with, a communist party would be sente...

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The Word communist not only became a bad word but also a serious accusation. The practice of communism became evil and all those who were believed to be communist were thought of as evil too. ... They feared infiltration by communist in places of power like political offices. ... In 1950 McCarthy made a speech accusing 205 government workers for being apart of the American communist party. ... He realizes that the future of this country could be hindered by the infiltration of communist. ...

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The Indochinese Communist Party, which was later called the Vietnamese Communist Party, began to grow stronger and by 1945 the group was ready to fight for the independence of Vietnam once more. ... After 1954 Ho Chi Minh and his Communist followers began preparing for a battle with South Vietnam to unify the country under Communist rule. ... South Vietnam became uneasy, and assistance was needed to fight against the communist North. ... From 1954 to 1960 the U.S. sent a few number of troops into Vietnam to help resist the Communist, but little was made of it. ... America did not want Rus...

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North Vietnam were communists, South Vietnam were non-communists. ... The Vietnamese Communists called the war "a war of national liberation." The communists saw the war as additional attempt by another foreign power to rule Vietnam. China and the Soviet Union, which were large communist regions gave the Vietnamese communists war material but no troops(Marc). ...

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Truman, were not harsh enough on the communist party and they strongly opposed Roosevelt's New Deal. ... The anti-Communist hysteria that was taking control of the U.S. came as a result of many different factors following the end of World War Two. ... Finally, the Communist takeover in China, the USSR's detonation of an atomic bomb in 1949, and the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 all led the U.S. to not only distrust, but to fear any communist-related groups either in the USSR or the U.S. ... Actors, directors, producers, and writers were all under close watch by the government...

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The Bay of Pigs invasion was organized by the CIA and was intended to overthrow Castro, whose Communist government, in Cuba, lay just 90 miles from the Florida coast. ... He joined the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) in 1918 and served in the Red Army as a junior political officer during the Russian Civil War (1918-1921). ... In 1929 Khrushchev moved to Moscow to attend the Stalin Industrial Academy, where he soon became leader of the academy's Communist Party organization. ... A firm supporter of Stalin during his early career, Khrushchev became a secretary of the Central Committee o...

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During the late 1960's the U.S. got involved with the escalating threat in the country of Vietnam. Vietnam was an ocean away but people needed help and the U.S. was there to give it. Many people didn't agree with this plan of action because they thought this wasn't our war. Many people wanted the Am...

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"Our immediate and most and most urgent anxiety of course, is the threat of the Communist Conspiracy. ... His Communist murderers proceeded to defile his corpse (Ingraham, The New American). ... The Communists, he said, began using Sputnik to begin their propaganda. ... The Communists said they could write 50,000 letters to Washington, DC in seventy-two hours. ... Welch referred that Americans were being "brainwashed- by the Communists. ...

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In the 1950's he found his issue, Communist power and subversion. ... His researches discovered 30 000 books by "communists, pro-Communists, former communists and anti anti-Communists." ... He accused the U.S Army of "coddling Communists". ... They found someone to blame; Communists. ... By trying to keep America from becoming a Communist nation, McCarthy and his followers turned the country into an anti - Communist nation. ...

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When Fidel Castro, the dictator of Cuba from 1959-present, declared the government Communist in 1961; President of the U.S. ... Once again the communist "virus- created by the Soviets was spreading throughout Latin America. ... Communists influences began when a Marxist, named Agustan Farabundo Martí, returned to El Salvador (after leaving the country to Guatemala for two years) as a representative of International Red Aid (Socorro Rojo) so that he can support the communist workers' movement. ... The Communist Party formed into a guerrilla force in 1979. ... The U.S. has been inter...

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Hungarian communists were gradually gaining control of Hungary's government. Matthias Rakosi was head of the communist party, and head of the government. ... Some communists in free nations protested by resigning from the party. ... In 1988, fortunately for the Hungarians the Communist Party's power started to erode. ... A non-communist party won a majority of the parliamentary seats. ...

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Rivalry of Culture Fear; the strife between the capitalist and communist governments resulted in this. ... Through Government propaganda, U.S. citizens feared communists and sympathizers and any light heartedness taken towards them was considered and admission of being a communist in itself. ... The Aliens that take over bodies were the communists and promoted the belief that communists were almost inhuman. ... Only a few were actually communists, very few were actors. ... HUAC investigated the public sniffing out communists. ...

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French forces at Dienbienphu in 1954 after Vietnam army defeated them; French were compelled to accede to the creation of a communist north and left a non-communist entity South of that line. ... Communists accused democracy of Violating human rights, created close state economics that barely traded with capitalists countries and pursued military aggression as well. A lot of Americans even compared communist as a disease. If one nation decided to become communist the U.S policymakers expected the nations around it to become communist. ... When the Communist Part came to power in Chine, Wa...

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The French, British, and American zones were all capitalistic regions, whereas the Soviet zone was communistic. ... Later, communist China helps North Korea push South Korea back to almost its original border, however, two million deaths occurred, 50,000 of which were American. ... In 1959, Cuba had become communist under Fidel Castro. ... Luckily, the US was able to avoid conflict by containing the communist countries from spreading and influencing other countries. If the Soviets tried to force communist views on the US, there would have been a high chance of conflict, war, or in the worst c...

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Kennedy, American University Speech, June 10, 1963 The Cold War was a time in American History during the twentieth century where the Communist nations were fighting against the non-Communist nations. ... The United States led the fight against Communist nations, like Russia. ... It kept on going, however, due to the American communists, communist sympathizers, and citizens trying to achieve social justice. ... These films all presented traits similar to either the communists or the stereotypical description of communists. ... Therefore, it is likely that the directors were Anti-Communist. ...

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On March 1985, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was elected general secretary of the Communist Party in Russia. ... In semi-democratic parliamentary elections in Poland, the Communists were roundly defeated and soon forced to accept a non-Communist prime minister. ... Discontent soon spread to East Germany, as it became clear that Gorbachev would not use force to put down anti-Communist revolts". ... In Romania, the communist Party of Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown by popular protest and by the force of arms in December 1989. The fall of the communist parties in Bulgaria and Albania soon follo...

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The Soviets reluctance to reunify Korea and the strong Communist atmosphere in North Korea also disgruntled Americans and hurt diplomatic relations. Overall, each step that the Soviet Union took to strengthen its power and the power of the Communist party was viewed as an act of aggression, and there are many historians who strongly believe that the Soviets were at fault in the instigation of the Cold War due to these immense acts of aggression. ... As the Soviet Union grew more and more powerful, every American grew more frightened of the Communist movement. No event greater exemplified this ...

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"The devotion to Marxism, the attack against capitalism, and the often repeated desire to provoke Communist revolutions in other countries had made that nation the object of American suspicion long before the coming of World War II or even Vietnam." The experience of the Korean War, which left the safety of South Korea dependent upon the presence of American soldiers, sealed the U.S. government's attitude that all communist movements were hostile to the interests of the United States and its allies and the anti-communist effort in Vietnam was part of the struggle of the "Free World" agai...

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Communist forces in The Vietnam War were: North Vietnam, Viet Cong, Khmer Rouge, Pathet Lao, Soviet Union, China and North Korea. Anti-Communist forces were: South Vietnam, United States, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Khmer Republic and the Kingdom of Laos. ... This meant it was extremely hard to fight the communist forces. ... In 1975 the war ended at the Fall of Saigon with the North Vietnamese and communists winning the war. This resulted in Vietnam reuniting as a communist country. ...

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Tito's Communist military power expanded and became the National Liberation Army. ... Stalin wanted to add Yugoslavia to the East European Communist bloc. ... After release form jail, Tito began to strengthen the Yugoslavian Communist Party. ... For example, the break affected American perception of the communist world. The split proved not all communist countries were aligned with the Soviet Union. ...

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Communist expansion has been feared much by the United States, especially after the Korean War. ... American leaders felt that United States should stand as a firm power against any communist advance. ... (Dodd 810) More third world countries fall into the communist hands in 1960's that ever before. ... Pro-communist guerilla movements spread across South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. ... One of the most famous examples would be Che Guevara fighting for communist revolution in Bolivia. ...

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Any communist anywhere, at home or abroad, was, by definition, and enemy of the United States. ... Ho and his chief lieutenants were communists with long-standing connections to the Soviet Union. ... But expanding communist control of Eastern Europe and the triumph of the communists in China's civil was made France's war against Ho seem an anticommunist rather than a colonialist effort. ... But the communists' Tet offensive launched in January 1968 quickly extinguished the "light at the end of the tunnel". ... For the Vietnamese communists, the struggle...

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Also the time Americans were afraid of communist, because they thought every communist would be out to destroy America, Americans were afraid that the communist would take their rights away, also all Americans should be treated fairly and should not have their lives dictated. ... This also occurred during The Red Scare and during this time people were afraid of Communism during this time because they were afraid that The Communist Party would take over American Allies and that there was a plot to take over the United States. ... If America was to was to become a communist country then just k...

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At Yalta, Stalin had promised to include non-communists in the new Polish government and to hold free elections. ... The provisional government, established in Poland at the end of the war, was controlled by communists. ... When elections were finally held in Poland in 1947, the communists" provisional government claimed victory. In fact, more than 80% of the votes had voted against the communists. In spite of protests from the United States and Britain, communist rule in Poland continued. ...

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