In 1945, the communist Soviet Union invaded North Korea, quickly forcing the Japanese to surrender. ... Tensions quickly grew between the North and South, as powerful leaders arose in both territories; Kim Il Sung imposing a communist regime in the North and national exile Syngman Rhee establishing the Republic of Korea in the South. Although the U.S. had begun to withdraw troops from Korea as early as 1948, they were forced to remain, as communist North Korea threatened to invade South Korea. ... McCarthy was just beginning his tirade of communist accusations against members of the Truman adm...

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"What do the Chinese Communists want? ... It is because of China's strive to be a hegemony in the world and because of the clashing of the capitalist vs. communist ideologies in their foreign policies, that caused hostility between the liberal-capitalist USA and the communist China through 1949 to 1991. ... From 1949 China was ruled by communist dictator Mao Zedong. ... In contrast the communist leadership appeared purposeful and resolute; its followers were loyal and dedicated. ... It can be seen through the Chinese foreign policy, written in the times when Mao Zedong was the leader ...

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United States even offered money to communist countries in Europe, including the Soviet Union. ... Also it made sure that Berlin would not be taken over by the communist. In North Korea, a communist government was established by the Soviet Union. ... Between (1951-1953), in the Korean war communist country North Korea surprised the US by invading the democratic South Korea. ... This decision by the US to become involved in the Korean conflict helped South Korea to remain free and not become communist like the Soviet Union wanted it. ...

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There was a time when everyone was going hysterical over nothing, thousands of artists were getting laid off for no good reason, and a national communist scare had the nation at a standstill. ... There were several communist scares in the United States such as the Red Scare in the 1920s and the Palmer Raids that followed, but in February 1950 Senator John McCarthy acquired quite a following when he began pointing fingers at alleged communist sympathizers. The hysteria and paranoia that had existed post World War I returned in full swing once more, but this time the threat was even greater and ...

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Most European countries accepted the aid, with the exception of communistic powers such as the Soviet Union, and certain Communist parties in Italy, France and Czechoslovakia all who declined American influence in any of their economy and due to this the Marshall plan created a containment effect in which now communist countries received no benefit, and their economies haltered as a result. On the other side, the assistance went to countries first like Greece and Turkey who were receiving fierce opposition from communist influences and generally had to be protected by countries like Britain i...

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The Americans took this act as a sign that Kim II Sung was utilising a communist take-over, thus in October of the same year America, with UN sanction, invaded North Korea. ... This is important because America as the leader of the capitalist ideology could not afford to let Korea fall to the North, as they believed that to do so would essentially relinquish control to the communists. ... Most South Koreans believe that the North are "engaged in a deceptive peace offensive in a bid to cover up their aggressiveness by misleading world opinion" America too keeps a watchful eye on North Korea...

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While the influence of communism is not acknowledged by many as having an affect on the world today, the changes being wrought by capitalism are slowly building up to a breaking point, which will leave the world in a communist state. ... Follower's of the communist credo believe that the greatest threats posed to the world today, stem from capitalism. ... Classic communist belief dictates that eventually this class will rise up against the capitalist system and overthrow it, replacing it with worldwide equality and standardized living for everyone. ) These disruptions are the greatest sou...

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Unlike America, North Korea, which is a communist country, is ranked 197 on the list of countries based on growth domestic product. ... It is currently a communist state under the dictatorship of Kim Jong Un. The political system is originally modeled after the communist Soviet Union. ... According to cia.com, the communist Vietnamese government is also usually described as authoritarian. Vietnam ruled by the Vietnamese Communist Party, the only legal political party in the country. ...

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To combat the threat of communism, Australia joined two anti-communist alliances. ... The threat was perceived because of the "domino theory", which was the theory that as one country became communist, the next would and so on. This was shown to be happening when at first China and the North Korea and then Vietnam became communist. ... Examples of this was the Korean War in 1950 during which the communist forces which occupied North Korea, which was run by communist Russia, crossed the border and invaded South Korea, which was run by the USA. Forces from Australia immediately moved into the co...

• Word Count: 1983
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The letter is a warning that there " is a possibility of a civil war developing between the communist and nationalist factions in Korea (Lee 2001:6). ... "Worse still, in Hodge's eyes was the presence of Communists in some of the KPR's key positions" (Cumings 1983:107). ... It also was a period of political organization; Korean leftists emerged from the underground and began to rebuild their communist parties. ... "While internecine squabbling and conflict both with southern rightists and the American military government preoccupied communists in the South and the politics of the ...

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" He explained the reasoning behind the scissors strategy in his memoirs entitled New Lies for Old: Each blade of the communist pair of scissors makes the other more effective. False alliances make it easier to achieve specific communist goals, such as the acquisition of advanced technology or the negotiation of arms control agreements or the spread of communism to the Middle East and Africa. ... At a later stage the communist strategists are left with the option of terminating the split and adopting the strategy of one clenched fist (p. 182). ... Labor columnist Victor Riesel, stated tha...

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Karl Marx identifies the interests of these workers in his book called The Communist Manifesto when he states "The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains" (106). ... This could be for a number of reasons, the most likely being that most of the countries we've had conflicts with recently are communist nations. ... We do not have issues with them purely because they are communists, there have always been underlying conflicts. ... The U.S. government offers checks and balances to avoid these kinds of leaders, while previous communist governments have not. ... There is ...

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Thus, it was indeed correct for the government to attempt to punish Ellsberg, for he had no right interfering with foreign affairs, nor was it just for him to destabilize American security against the communists for they could have deciphered coded messages sent by the United States. ... Disclosure of these documents will causes various issues within capitalist/communist affairs and will just cause more uncertainty throughout public interest. ...

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(Grimm, 2013) Through his speeches he repeated his anti-Communist policy that Soviets and Communism, as a whole, would fail. ... The Soviet Union no longer standing the type of threat it once did Reagan and his anti-communist attitude and mentality still did not let up. ... Reagan was not a fan of communism, he was an anti-communist. He did not accept it, an always had his eyes on communist. ...

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With the rise of The Communist Revolution in 1917, the Soviet Union developed awkward relations with the United States. ... Then in 1949, America, Canada, and ten other European allies joined together to form N.A.T.O, which was created to end the Communistic takeover of the Soviet Union. ... America began a widespread hate to all Communists. Those who were believed to a "Communistic" were denied entry to Am! ... Then to America's dismay Cuba began to trade with other Communist countries like China and the Soviet Union. ...

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The U.S and its people were afraid of losing their thriving economy; they were afraid of the expansion of communistic ideas, and most of all, they were afraid of a nuclear holocaust and destruction. ... They were afraid that if communism were to reach the U.S, it would deprive them of all the great things had by creating the communistic equal share to everyone. ... President Eisenhower curried favor with foreign countries for the purpose of domestic security, by spreading the democratic ideals, he contained and repelled the communistic ideals which the American people so much hated and fear...

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For example, before Mao Tse-tung led his Peoples" Liberation Army to victory in China, his forces had been provided with military and technical support through Communist International (Comintern). ... The countries allied with the United States were all democratic nations while those in the east were communist. ... It prevented the communist ideas of the east from coming into the democratic west. ...

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Although Cuba was undergoing the process for revolutionary change the way that Cuba was heading was all held liable by Cuba's own hero, Fidel Castro who was responsible for the elimination of Sergeant Batista in 1959 to end the revolution, but Fidel Castro was taking an unexpected communist turn for his country. Fidel Castro continued slowly but surely to turn Cuba into the first communist state in its side of the world. ... Immediately South America hopped right back over to the United States for help and to support against communist Cuba. ... Although Cuba has hit a ruff patch in the p...

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After America's defeat of Japan in World War II, the French continued its colonial rule in Vietnam until 1954 when the Vietminh, Ho Chi Minh's communist army, defeated it once and for all. ... Eisenhower imposed a demilitarized zone on Vietnam that split the country into two and effectively delineated a civil war boundary between the Northern communists under Ho Chi Minh's rule and the Southern nationalists under Ngo Dinh Diem. ...

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Chaplain, who had been loosely watched by the FBI since the 1920s, came under increased scrutiny during this time due to the political nature of films such as The Great Dictator (1940).2 Chaplin was never officially accused of being a communist but the legal troubles and controversy he had endured during the 1940s as well as his connections with known Marxists meant that the ire of both the commission and the public had already been raised. ... Rupert's parents have been jailed for "not giving up names" at a hearing that has been held to investigate communist activities. ... Sim...

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Due to living amongst the rivalry between communist and armed forces, this threatened the well being of her family and forced them to flee from their country in order to evade being killed or possibly captured like many other families within her town (Katsuyo, 1990). ... In general, Mai and her family received the opportunity to come to the U.S. and flee from the gruesome killings the communist soldiers launched upon their small villages. ... Mei and her family realized the only way to evade the communist soldiers was to become refugees and sacrifice leaving everything behind for their own saf...

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The USA was a capitalist democracy, and had the support of other capitalists democracies, mainly in Western Europe, and the USSR was a communist dictatorship, supported by other communist states in Eastern Europe and Asia. ... This conflict had divided Europe, both metaphorically, with what Winston Churchill referred to as an "Iron Curtain," And physically, with the Berlin Wall, built to keep capitalist West Berlin and communist East Berlin separate for nearly thirty years. ...

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Americans were so fearful of a communist foothold in Latin America that a statement with echoes of the Monroe Doctrine was made asserting that any spread of communism in the Americas was a direct threat to the sovereignty and independence of the American people, endangering peace. ... Given the situation of the Cold War it could be inferred that the communist opposition in Moscow would attribute the same logic to the situation. ... Because of the propaganda created by men like Joseph McCarthy in Washington, Americans fear that even their close friends and neighbors could be secret communist pa...

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By 1948, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Albania and Yugoslavia all had Communist governments. The setting up of pro-communistic regimes in this region appeared to the West to be a direct outlash against them, because all the allies had agreed in Potsdam to allow democratic elections of governments in East Europe. ...

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(Guillermoprieto, 83), while they did not meet the same success as Castro's revolutions, many young people staged Communist revolutions in their own countries. ... The presence of communists in Cuba was as unimaginable and as it was inadmissible.' ...

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