The leadership in Cambodia and Laos are both communist but have different leaders. ... When he returned to Cambodia he wanted to set-up a communist peasant farming state. ... The United States and England were anti-communist. ... The United States was against Cambodia and Laos being Communist. ... Cambodia is always looking to the United States for help against the Vietnamese Communist. ...

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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 By the end of World War II, most had withdrawn, though some were still communist party members.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 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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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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At a meeting of the UN Security Council, a unanimous decision to render assistance to South Korean was made, and to help repel communist spread. ... To the UN, it was important to maintain influence over south Korea, as it is a very strategic location, sitting between Japan, the soviet union, and communist giant china. ... All the while, Mao Zedong, emperor of Communist china, began to get nervous about the rapidly advancing and confident UN soldiers. ... As the US soldiers reached the Chosin resovior, they were caught by an ambush of over 100,000 communist troops. ... The US entrance into...

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The red army was the communists of the country. ... War breaks out and because of the communist forces, and the communists make the decision to engage in the "Long March.... After the battle they return to their civil war and in 1949 the communists secure victory and China becomes a communist country. ... In China the communists were forced to walk a 6,000 mile journey to succeed while in Russia, communists merely had to win the battle. Both countries battled nationalists and communists and the communists were successful on both sides. ...

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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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Communists, perhaps above all other groups, were looked on with the most suspicion and were eventually the main target of the U.S. attack on these groups. ... The creation of the Soviet Union and its communist government led to a fear in the U.S. that communism could spread in America and the U.S. government would be overthrown just as the Russian government and its Tsar (the Russian King) had been replaced (Tsar Nicholas II was eventually murdered by the Communists along with his entire family). ... They were seen, or at least their leaders were, as agents of the communists and the other radi...

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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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In most communist countries, the economy is alway bad; and does nott recover or collapses entirely. Communist countries like Laos, North Korea and Cuba all have very poor and weak economies5. ... This would cause a reasonable assumption that the South and North Korean communist economies would suffer the same fate. ... The communist forces were committing war crimes throughout their campaign. ... The communist soldiers then wired their hands behind their backs and forced them to cower in hastily dug shallow ditches, face down. ...

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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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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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At first glance this may not be apparent to the average reader, but with a closer look each animal has a characteristic of a Communist leader. ... He changed each Communist leader into an animal, and the Soviet Union as a country into a country-side farm. Much controversy came from Orwell's interpretation of the Communist leaders as pigs, since pigs are regarded as filthy and unclean animals. ... Or in Orwell's eyes, Stalin acting as a Communist. ... It is easy to make the connection between Communist Soviet Union and the farm and how it is run by Napoleon once it is understood. ...

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Soon after, Kim Il Sung came down with Soviet troops and the Korean Communist Party and took over the North. ... On October 2, 1950 the South Korean army crossed the 38th parallel, while the Chinese communists threatened to enter the war if the UN crossed the 38th parallel. ... * * * The United States had stood by the Republic of Korea in its struggle "against Communist aggression, which the United States believed trampled upon human dignity and which replaced national sovereignty with a humiliating satellite status." ... " * * * After a long winter recess, the Communists wer...

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Soon after, Kim Il Sung came down with Soviet troops and the Korean Communist Party and took over the North. ... On October 2, 1950 the South Korean army crossed the 38th parallel, while the Chinese communists threatened to enter the war if the UN crossed the 38th parallel. ... * * * The United States had stood by the Republic of Korea in its struggle "against Communist aggression, which the United States believed trampled upon human dignity and which replaced national sovereignty with a humiliating satellite status." ... " * * * After a long winter recess, the Communists were willing...

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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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